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Top 10 in Law Blogs: Workplace Security, Drone Laws, CEQA
Better late than never as we're here with today's Top 10. Over on LXBN, our series rolls on as Kevin LaCroix writes on one of the biggest securities law decisions…
CEQA Developments
Supreme Engagement: CEQA’s Continuing Saga In California’s High Court
A new year often brings fresh perspective. With 2016 still in its infancy, it is natural to reflect back on what has been and also to contemplate what is yet…
Environmental and Climate
PLACER COUNTY’S HOMEWOOD VILLAGE RESORT EIR COMES UNDER FIRE
In an unpublished opinion, Cal. Clean Energy Comm. V. County of Placer, 2015 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 9360, the Third Appellate District granted California Clean Energy Committee’s (Clean Energy) petition…
CEQA Developments
California Supreme Court Holds “CEQA-In-Reverse” Is Not The Norm, Reverses And Remands First District’s Judgment In CBIA v. BAAQMD
In a unanimous 24-page opinion authored by newly seated Justice Cuellar and filed December 17, 2015, the California Supreme Court resolved a fundamental issue regarding CEQA’s scope, holding that –…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
CEQA Requires An Analysis Of The Project’s Impacts On The Environment, Not The Environment’s Impacts On The Project; California Supreme Court Sets Clear Limits On CEQA’s Reach
By Stephen Kostka, Marie Cooper
CEQA generally does not require that public agencies analyze the impact existing environmental conditions might have on a project’s future users or residents, according to the California Supreme Court’s decision…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Court Rebuffs CEQA Challenge to Subway Tunnel Under Beverly Hills High
By Alan Murphy
Beverly Hills and its school district have failed to persuade the court of appeal to block construction of a subway line beneath Beverly Hills High School. Beverly Hills Unified School…
Environmental and Climate
SUPREME COURT DELAYS DEVELOPMENT OF NEWHALL RANCH PROJECT
On November 30, 2015, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Center for Biological Diversity v. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2015 Cal. LEXIS 1043, addressing Newhall Ranch, a…
CEQA Developments
First District Reissues Slightly Modified Opinion on Retransfer From Supreme Court Rejecting Most CEQA Challenges to Cal State East Bay Campus Expansion EIR
On November 30, 2015, following a grant and retransfer from the California Supreme Court and reconsideration in light of City of San Diego v. Board of Trustees of California State…
Environmental and Climate
THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT FINDS EIR FOR INVASIVE SPECIES EFFORTS INADEQUATE
In an unpublished opinion, North Coast Rivers Alliance v. Kawamura, 2015 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 8760, the Third Appellate District reversed the trial court’s rulings and found a programmatic EIR…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Complex New Requirements for CEQA Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Set by Supreme Court
Newhall Ranch, a proposed mega-development in Los Angeles County, can’t seem to catch a break: besieged by setbacks since Newhall Land first filed an application to develop the land in…