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First District Holds LA’s Water Allocations To Agricultural Lessees Were Authorized Under Existing Leases And Did Not Constitute Or Implement A Separate “Project” Subject to CEQA Review

CEQA Developments

The First District Court of Appeal filed on June 30, and later ordered published on July 26, 2022, its opinion in County of Mono v. In 2010 the City executed leases with a number of agricultural lessees for pasturage, farming alfalfa, and other purposes. City of Los Angeles (1st Dist. A162590) __ Cal.App.5th acre feet per acre.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

To get a better sense of where the court may be heading, I spoke with Sean Donahue , an environmental lawyer who argued one of the cases and was there for the other two oral arguments. This doctrine limits the power of agencies to issue regulations of “extraordinary” importance and was used by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v.

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Taking Climate Change to the International Court of Justice: Legal and Procedural Issues

Law Columbia

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. Flickr : International Court of Justice, The Hague . The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

Mazzant III of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss the government’s first ever criminal indictment for alleged wage-fixing. The court determined that Rodgers had failed to show that a valid non-prosecution agreement existed.]] On November 29, 2021, Judge Amos L.

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Fourth District Rejects CEQA And Municipal Code Challenges To City Of Santa Cruz’s Project Approvals And EIR For Small Multifamily Housing Project

CEQA Developments

In an opinion filed on December 16, 2021, and belatedly ordered published on January 13, 2022, the Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected a CEQA challenge to a small multifamily project in the City of Santa Cruz. The trial court rejected all of OSENA’s CEQA arguments but granted its petition as to the PDP and slope variance issue.

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Louisiana Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Proper Application of Prescription and Contra Non in NORM Litigation

The Energy Law Blog

the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal concluded that plaintiffs’ survival and wrongful death actions were prescribed when plaintiffs brought suit almost four years after the diagnosis of cancer and subsequent death of their husband/father and failed to inquire as to the cause of illness and death. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al.,

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. NEPA: The Council on Environmental Quality has a three-step plan related to the National Environmental Policy Act rules, which guide federal permitting decisions and other actions. Executive Branch. International.

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