In Muskan Foods & Fuel v. City of Fresno (2021) (Sep. 27, 2021, No. F079342) ___Cal.App.5th___ [2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 793], the Fifth District Court of Appeal held that Muskan Foods (Petitioner) failed to exhaust their available administrative appeals...
In Sierra Watch v. Placer County (2021) ____ Cal.App. _____, and Sierra Watch v. Placer County (2021) ____ Cal.App. _____, the Third District Court of Appeal considered two appeals from separate trial court decisions concerning a resort project in Olympic...
In Save Our Access v. Watershed Conservation Authority (2021) 68 Cal.App.5th 8, the Second District Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s grant of a petition for writ of mandate related to a national forest redevelopment project’s parking impacts but...
On June 11, 2021, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-08-21 (Order), which sets sunset dates on dozens of executive order provisions previously issued to address the COVID-19 pandemic, including some impacting CEQA and land use. Specifically, the Order sets a...
In Linovitz Capo Shores LLC v. California Coastal Commission (2021) 65 Cal. App. 5th 1106, the Fourth District Court of Appeal found that the California Coastal Commission’s (Commission) failure to act on a series of mobilehome renovation permits constituted an...
In Carmel Valley Ass’n v. County of Monterey (2021) 2021 Cal.App.Unpub. LEXIS 3286, the Sixth District Court of Appeal reversed a decision granting a petition of mandate against the County of Monterey’s (County) approval of an environmentally superior alternative to...
On April 23, 2021, the First District Court of Appeal ordered partial publication of Stop Syar Expansion v. County of Napa (2021) 63 Cal.App.5th 444, a decision affirming the trial court’s denial of a writ of mandate challenging the sufficiency...
In Bldg. A Better Redondo v. City of Redondo Beach (2021) 2021 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1038, the Second District Court of Appeal upheld an $80,000 costs and $683,000 attorney fee award, following a partially successful CEQA challenge. The Court...
In Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (2020) Cal.App.LEXIS 1236, the First District Court of Appeal held that, under a plain reading of Public Resources Code section 21174, a responsible agency’s statutory...
In Martis Camp Cmty. Ass’n v. County of Placer (2020) Cal.App. LEXIS 773, the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed and reversed portions of a judgment concerning the County’s partial abandonment of public easement rights in an emergency access road...
On June 12, 2020, the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a lengthy opinion addressing the consolidated cases in Golden Door Properties, LLC v. County of San Diego and Sierra Club v. County of San Diego. The Fourth District held...
The Judicial Council of California met on April 6, 2020 to adopt a series of emergency court rules. Emergency Rule 9 tolls civil statutes of limitations (SOL)—including those found in CEQA—from April 6, 2020 to 90 days after the Governor...