First District affirms approval of 44-unit mixed-use infill housing project on former shopping center site in San Ramon, holding that the project was consistent with the City’s general plan and zoning ordinance and that aspirational planning language did not impose mandatory master plan requir
The Ninth Circuit reverses the dismissal of the County of San Bernardino’s coverage suit against ICSOP for cleanup costs at the Chino Airport, holding that the policies’ aggregate limits provision is ambiguous and does not cap property-damage coverage.
The Ninth Circuit denies panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in the tribes’ challenge to a BLM land exchange under FLPMA, leaving in place the panel’s ruling that an 1900 cession statute restricts disposal of certain Fort Hall ceded lands.
First District holds that the discharge of an earlier CEQA writ necessarily decided the adequacy of Caltrans’s revised analysis of impacts on Richardson Grove redwoods, barring petitioners from relitigating those impacts in a third writ proceeding.
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.
On remand from the California Supreme Court, the First District again upholds the Public Utilities Commission’s NEM 3.0 successor tariff for rooftop solar exports, applying the Yamaha standard of deference.
Second District affirms a comprehensive adjudication of the Las Posas Valley Groundwater Basin, upholding the trial court’s physical solution allocating water to overlying landowners and appointing Fox Canyon as watermaster.
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.
Fourth District holds Proposition 65’s pre-suit notice regulation is directory rather than mandatory, and that substantial compliance — not strict compliance — governs the validity of the 60-day notice for private-enforcement actions.
First District holds a program-level Environmental Impact Report for a local government’s general plan update need not include site-specific environmental analysis of housing-element inventory sites where no actual housing project has been proposed.