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High Speed Rail Authority ready for construction after settling environmental lawsuits

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

On the eve of target date to commence construction, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (the "Authority") managed to settle the remaining

Condemn now, CEQA-compliance later? Ok. Maybe

  • Nossaman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

Acquiring property for public projects typically does not occur until after the project has received environmental approval. While this is the

Court grants federal government additional year to issue new biological opinions for California water projects

  • Nossaman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 9 2013

On April 9, 2013, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled (pdf) on a motion (pdf) by the United States and the

The United States allocated 40 of liability for contamination caused by a contractor’s manufacturing operations

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2013

A recent decision by a federal court in the Central District of California found the United States liable for 40 of the response costs related to

BP suspension offers a lesson on the additional consequences of environmental enforcement

  • Husch Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2013

BP's November 2012 settlement pdf of the federal criminal charges stemming from the Deepwater Horizon spill left some important issues unresolved

Save Cuyama Valley v. County of Santa Barbara: JMBM scores significant victory in CEQA ruling on significance thresholds and mitigation measures

  • Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2013

In a decision published on February 8, 2013, the Second Appellate District ruled in favor of the JMBM client Troesh Materials, LLC in a challenge

Road construction contractor agrees to pay $735,000 to resolve stormwater discharge claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2013

The prime contractor for an Oregon Department of Transportation project on U.S. Highway 20 has agreed to pay a $735,000 penalty to resolve

Valley land owner's bid to derail high speed rail is denied

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

In the continuing legal battle between Central Valley agricultural interests and California’s high-speed rail (“HSR”) project, plaintiffs in three separate lawsuits in Sacramento County Superior Court requested a preliminary injunction to stop all work associated with the initial segment of the HSR between Merced and Fresno until a ruling on the lawsuits’ merits

Further confirmation notice of exemption filed before project approval is void

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 30 2012

The partially published opinion in Coalition for Clean Air v. City of Visalia brightened the line regarding when a California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Exemption (NOE) is valid

Damages for delay in awarding a contract and issuing a notice to proceed

  • Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 1 2012

The City of New Orleans advertised for bids for street and utility renovation for certain streets

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