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In Farmland Protection Alliance v. County of Yolo (Nov. 3, 2021, No. C087688) ___Cal.App.5th___ [2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 930], the Third District Court of Appeal held that CEQA does not permit an agency to split a project’s environmental review across...
In McCann v. City of San Diego (2021) 70 Cal.App.5th 51, the Fourth District Court of Appeal found that the Plaintiff, Margaret McCann (McCann), was barred from bringing a judicial action challenging the City’s approval of projects for undergrounding utility...
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 Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn. v. Newsom (2021) 67 Cal.App.5th 711, the First District Court of Appeal considered a challenge to the approval of a new baseball stadium in Oakland under special legislation modeled on AB 900. While the special legislation...
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 Save Lafayette Trees v. East Bay Regional Park Dist. (June 30, 2021, No. A156150) ___Cal.App.5th___ [2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 545], the First District Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of petitioners’ CEQA claim as barred by the applicable statutes...
In the unpublished opinion N. Coast Rivers Alliance v. Westlands Water Dist. (June 28, 2021, No. C092233) [2021 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4220], the Third District Court of Appeal held that a CEQA petitioner had not sufficiently established a nonduplicative,...
In Newtown Preservation Society v. County of El Dorado (2021) 65 Cal.App.5th 771, the Third District Court of Appeal considered whether impacts to wildfire safety and emergency evacuation routes required preparation of an EIR. The partially published opinion, authored by...
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...
Dunning v. Clews (2021) 64 Cal.App.5th 156 involves a malicious prosecution lawsuit, brought by developers who successfully defended against CEQA claims in Clews Land & Livestock, LLC v. City of San Diego (2017) 19 Cal.App.5th 161 (the CEQA litigation). Following...