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Petition for Review Granted
March 11, 2015
Current Status
Opening brief on the merits filed on May 8, 2015.
Answer brief on the merits is due on July 10, 2015.
Court’s Statement of Issues Presented
Must the environmental impact report (EIR) for a regional transportation plan include an analysis of the plan’s consistency with the…
Petition for Review Granted
November 26, 2013
Current Status
Fully briefed by the parties as of March 17, 2014.
Amicus briefing complete as of May 28, 2014.
Court’s Statement of Issue(s) Presented
Under what circumstances, if any, does the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq., hereinafter CEQA) require an analysis…
On September 25, 2014, Governor Edmond G. Brown, Jr., signed Assembly Bill (AB) 52, which expands the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000, et seq.)[1] to include a new category of resources that must be evaluated – “tribal cultural resources.” To shed some light on AB 52’s implementation, the Governor’s…
This post is part of a series highlighting the CEQA cases currently pending before the California Supreme Court.
Petition for Review Granted
April 18, 2012
Current Status
Fully briefed by the parties as of September 18, 2012.
Amicus briefing complete as of December 5, 2012.
Supplemental briefing completed by the parties as of January 29,…
This post is part of a series highlighting the CEQA cases currently pending before the California Supreme Court.
Petition for Review Granted
September 11, 2013
Current Status
Fully briefed by the parties as of January 31, 2014.
Amicus briefing complete as of March 27, 2014.
Oral Argument April 8, 2015.
Court’s Statement of Issues Presented…
On April 29, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed Executive Order B-30-15, which establishes “[a] new interim greenhouse gas emission reduction target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030…” (Executive Order B-30-15, ¶ 1, at http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18938.) The Executive Order requires the California Air Resources Board to express the 2030 …
On April 1, 2015, Citizens for Positive Growth & Preservation filed a petition for a writ of mandate in Sacramento Superior Court seeking to invalidate the City of Sacramento’s (City) recent adoption of its 2035 General Plan.
After a “major overhaul” of its 1988 General Plan and adoption of the 2030 General Plan in 2009,…
In an opinion issued April 9, 2015, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley denied a petition for a writ of mandate challenging the environmental impact report (EIR) for the McKinley Village infill development project in East Sacramento. The court also rejected petitioner’s argument that McKinley Village conflicted with the City of Sacramento’s General Plan. Thomas …
On March 11, 2015, the California Supreme Court unanimously granted the San Diego Association of Governments’ (SANDAG) petition for review of the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision in Cleveland National Forest Foundation v. San Diego Association of Governments (2014) 180 Cal.Rptr.3d 548. A complete summary of the case is available here: https://thomaslaw455.wpengine.com/appellate-court-requires-sandag-consider-executive-order-emissions-targets-regional-transportation-plan/, in…
The Thomas Law Group announced today the opening of a new office at the Kaiser Building in Oakland. The expansion comes on the heels of the law firm’s hiring of four new attorneys in 2014 to support the growing environmental and land use law firm.
The new office will be led by Thomas Law Group…
