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Judicial Deference to Agencies: A Timeline

Legal Planet

In the meantime, it’s illuminating to put the current dispute in the context of the last 80 years of judicial doctrine regarding deference to agencies on issues of law. Bumpers Amendment introduced in Senate, intended to eliminate judicial deference to agencies on questions of law. Skidmore v. Swift & Co. decided by Supreme Court.

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Note: Miller Starr Regalia attorneys Ken Stahl and Matt Henderson represented intervenors YIMBY Law and People for Housing Orange County (a chapter of YIMBY Action) in the Olen litigation.) That year the City prepared an environmental impact report for its general plan update (2006 EIR), which included residential development at the Center.

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Losing Justice Hobbs, Western Water Expert and Valued Mentor

Legal Planet

But people across the Colorado legal community, the broader Western water community, and a far-flung network that includes Berkeley Law staff, faculty, and alumni. Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. Justice Hobbs’ connections with Berkeley Law run deep. He got his JD here in 1971. I was lucky enough to be one of them. .

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Texas Supreme Court Rules on Correction Deeds in a Case of First Impression

Energy & the Law

2006: the Bank executes a correction mineral deed attempting to change the fee mineral interest to a life estate. 2013: Broadway Bank, John, and the original grantees of the 2005 deed execute a second correction deed, again attempting to change the fee interest to a life estate. The dispute. John does not sign this instrument.

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Frequency and distance of human travel follows universal pattern, mobile-phone data reveals

Physics World

The gravity law of human migration says that the movement between two urban areas decrease with distance and increases with population size or importance of the areas. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Gravity and radiation. Or put more simply, people are unlikely to travel far too often.

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Overturning 8 Years of “Palpable Error,” The Louisiana Supreme Court Limits Damages Available to Landowners in Oilfield Legacy Litigation

The Energy Law Blog

Tackling this problem, the Louisiana Legislature in 2006 enacted La. In 2013, the decision in State of Louisiana v. This was all done in light of this Court’s 2013 La. The Energy Law Blog will explore the import of the prescription ruling in a separate post. 30:29, known as Act 312. LL&E II , at *2. 12-0884 (La.

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California Releases Draft Plan to Reach Carbon Neutrality by 2045

Legal Planet

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The initial plan was approved in 2008 , with the second in 2013 , and the most recent iteration in 2017.