USA
- April 8 2021
In a case that exists only because of the choices a city made in both application decision-making and litigation, the Second District Court of Appeal…
USA
- March 24 2021
During California’s strawberry harvesting season in the summer of 2015, union activists entered a nursery’s property under the authority granted by a…
USA
- March 8 2021
In a low-profile but important new decision, San Luis Obispo Local Agency Formation Commission v. City of Pismo Beach, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2021) (Case…
USA
- February 23 2021
As former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens famously explained, more than 30 years ago, about the Supreme Court’s takings cases…
USA
- January 28 2021
The often invoked but rarely successful laches doctrine is an equitable defense when a party unreasonably delays enforcing a right and when granting…
USA
- January 11 2021
On January 8, 2021 California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed an expansive State Budget that includes $1.75 billion to purchase additional motels…
USA
- December 28 2020
On December 18, 2020, the Fourth District Court of Appeal published 11 Lagunita, LLC v. California Coastal Commission, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2020) (Case…
USA
- December 8 2020
In a concise December 7, 2020 opinion, Hotop v. City of San Jose, __ F.3d __ (2020) (Case No. 18-16995), a 3-0 panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of…
USA
- November 16 2020
On November 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order granting certiorari in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid. The question presented in the…
USA
- November 9 2020
On November 5, 2020, in AMCAL Chico LLC v. Chico Unified School District, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2020) (Case No. C087700), a case involving the Chico…