Third District affirms denial of anti-SLAPP motion to strike a cross-complaint challenging the validity of an air quality management district’s underlying interpretive policy, holding that the cross-complaint did not arise from the district’s protected enforcement activities.
Third District holds that the California Department of Water Resources may use the precondemnation entry statutes to investigate properties for a potential water conveyance project without first satisfying Water Code requirements for project authorization and funding.
Third District holds plaintiffs who lost their CEQA challenge cannot recover catalyst-theory attorney fees under Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5 when the agency’s later action came years after final defeat in court.
Third District affirms denial of validation for Department of Water Resources bond resolutions tied to the long-running Delta Conveyance Project, holding the ‘Delta Program’ is so loosely defined that it cannot qualify as a permitted modification of the Feather River Project unit of the
Third District affirms denial of Vallejo’s CEQA writ challenge to American Canyon’s certification of an EIR for a 2.6-million-square-foot warehouse complex, holding the EIR’s water-supply analysis adequately addressed reasonably foreseeable demand under CEQA and the Water Code.