Topic
Record Preparation
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CEQA Developments
Third District Holds That Lead Agency Prevailing In CEQA Action Can Recover Reasonable Record Preparation Costs Despite Petitioner’s Election to Prepare Record
In a terse opinion filed September 13, and modified and ordered partially published on October 3, 2024, the Third District Court of Appeal upheld an award of reasonable record preparation…
Southern California Appellate News
Chron v. reverse chron
Ninth Circuit local rule 30-1.4 expresses a preference for using reverse chronological order when preparing the excerpts of record. But don't take that approach in preparing an appendix for a…
Environmental and Climate
Fifth District Allows Real Party to Recover Costs of Record Preparation
On, September 12, 2015, the Fifth District Court of Appeal issued its opinion in Citizens for Ceres v. City of Ceres (2016) _Cal.App.5th_. The opinion authorized real-parties-in-interest to recover costs…
Land Use Law Blog
Cost Recovery for Record Preparation in CEQA Litigation
by William W. Abbott and Janell M. Bogue The recent case of Hayward Area Planning Association v. City of Hayward (2005) Cal.App.4th 176 illustrates the importance of proper trial court…