PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

DEP contacted the operator who met onside and agreed to arrange for a contractor to begin remediation of the site. DEP directed the company to contact DEP’s Oil and Gas permitting department with any questions. Code 105.14, a major amendment to the approved Ch. 105 JPA E4129-133 must be submitted to the Department.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

As summarized by the Fifth Circuit, “PNK’s contacts are comprised of advertising activities (e.g., intentionally directed at Texas to solicit patrons.” For the Fifth Circuit, the key issue was that none of PNK’s contacts “ approximate physical presence ” in Texas. To begin with, what kinds of contacts satisfy this standard?

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This statute was amended in 2011 to allow removal of cases “for or relating to any act under color of [federal] office.” 3] Latiolais marks a significant change in the law. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database. There were no strict liability claims.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 28, 2021

According to the SEC’s order, Guggenheim’s compliance manual included language prohibiting employees from initiating contact with any regulator without prior approval from Guggenheim’s legal or compliance department, and the firm included similar language in its annual compliance training materials. ” 17 C.F.R.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

County of Madera (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th The opinion would serve as an excellent teaching tool for law professors teaching CEQA and we would commend it as beneficial reading for any lawyers seeking to understand and practice in the complex field of CEQA and land use law. Please contact Arthur F.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 14, 2023

City of Los Angeles (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th Interpreting the terms of the writ as a question of law, and the adequacy of the City’s return under an abuse of discretion standard (since an attempt to comply with the writ is essentially an attempt to comply with CEQA, see POET, LLC v. Please contact Arthur F. 4th 455, 479.)

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

In Yamaha , the Court held that courts of appeals could exercise jurisdiction over any question that is included within an interlocutory order, regardless of whether the district court identified that portion of the order as a controlling question of law. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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MAY 30, 2023

City of Malibu (2011) 193 Cal.App.4th Please contact Arthur F. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

This case began in 2011 when ETP and Enterprise explored the possibility of partnering to modify and extend, or construct anew, a pipeline to transport oil southbound from Cushing, Oklahoma. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P.,

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

In a lengthy, but mostly unpublished, opinion filed December 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a petitioner group’s CEQA, Planning and Zoning Law, and procedural due process/fair hearing challenges to the City of San Diego’s approval of a four-lane road connecting existing developments.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 3, 2019

a case concerning Texas partnership law. The dispute between ETP and Enterprise began in 2011, when Enterprise approached ETP about potentially building a crude oil pipeline together. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. ,

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2018

To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database. El Paso E & P Co. , the plaintiff-lessor brought a declaratory judgment action against the defendant-lessee seeking a determination that a 60-year-old, all-depths lease did not include rights to explore the Haynesville shale.

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MAY 25, 2021

On May 20, 2021, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill No. The new Act, which was immediately effective as an “urgency” statute, essentially modifies and reenacts former 2011 legislation that was repealed by its own terms on January 1, 2021. Please contact Arthur F. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 26, 2021

a) and its key 2011 amendments showed that the Legislature sought to address and eliminate the ambiguity in the undefined statutory phrase “any recipient of an approval” in order to clarify the persons who must be named as real parties in interest in CEQA actions. The 2011 statutory amendments to Public Resources Code § 21167.6.5

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JUNE 17, 2021

Formed in 2011, the OWB was established one year after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) amended the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) by, among other things, adopting Section 21F. Background. The Commission has relatively straightforward procedures for claiming a whistleblower award.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. Even though the foregoing sampling is really just the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to CEQA developments, it can readily be seen that our Supreme Court has been quite active in shaping CEQA law over the last decade.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law. Please contact Arthur F. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Loyalsock Watershed is classified by DEP as an Exceptional Value stream whose water quality must be protected by law, with no degradation. For more information on specific follow-up actions, contact Megan Lehman, DEP’s Environmental Community Relations officer at 570-327-3659. Read more here. Photos: Top- Dr.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That requirement was dropped in 1970 (contact me if you want to find out why) and what was then the “scope of examination” became the scope of all discovery. 2011) (quoting Fed. And how could there be when the court of appeals is citing cases dated in 1991, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2011. Holley , 942 F.2d 2d 916, 924 (5th Cir.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The number of tips, value of awards paid, and recent statements by Chair Gensler signaling his intent to strengthen the whistleblower rules underscore that the SEC views whistleblower tips as an important tool for the enforcement of the securities laws. He is not admitted to the practice of law in Washington, DC.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR). Resources Code,] § 21168.5.)

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MAY 3, 2021

Mr. Ellison died in 2011, and his widow continued to maintain the northwest tract lease. The court of appeals reversed, holding that Mrs. Ellison established as a matter of law that she had superior title to the disputed tract. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Mr. Ellison died in 2011, and his widow continued to maintain the northwest tract lease. The court of appeals reversed, holding that Mrs. Ellison established as a matter of law that she had superior title to the disputed tract. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

Following the reorganization of MMS into BSEE, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”), and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue in 2011, the use of OCS sediment resources is now implemented and managed through BOEM’s Marine Minerals Program (“MMP”). Through MMP, and pursuant to the authority granted by 43 U.S.C.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 8, 2024

North Coast Rivers Alliance, et al (“NCRA”) and Planning and Conservation League, et al (“PCL”) filed separate actions challenging the project under CEQA and other laws, in which some contractors intervened. 2011) 202 Cal.App.4th State Lands Com. 4th 549, 561 (“ Citizens ”), a decision analyzed in this blog’s 2/9/12 post.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. Trisko (BA, NYU, 1972; JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1977) is an attorney in private practice. He may be contacted at emtrisko@earthlink.net. For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule.

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JUNE 21, 2021

City of Dana Point (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th Appellants’ evidence here failed to squarely address the relevant impacts and came up short as a matter of law. . . Please contact Arthur F. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Court first held, as a matter of law exercising de novo review, that the EIR failed to contain the “accurate, stable, and finite project description” required by CEQA and necessary for an intelligent evaluation of a project’s impacts. City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th Please contact Arthur F.

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JUNE 12, 2017

The Second Circuit’s decision also addressed issues involving production in paying quantities and failure to pay royalties under the Louisiana Mineral Code, and a detailed discussion of those issues is also located on T he Energy Law Blog. 2010-2011 (La. Bush ( bjbush@liskow.com ), Caleb J. Madere ( cjmadere@liskow.com ), or Jamie D.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th While TRPA had “jurisdiction by law” in that it exercises authority over resources affected by the project, it was not a responsible agency. Please contact Arthur F. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. United States v.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 23, 2022

Most obviously, and topically, they plainly will apply to housing development projects when state housing laws impose legal obligations that limit local agencies’ legal authority to disapprove or reduce the density of those projects. (See, See, e.g., Gov. Code, § 65589.5 (the the “Housing Accountability Act”).).

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 16, 2021

Please contact Arthur F. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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JUNE 2, 2021

The high courts of both states disagreed, and the US Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Ford's contacts with the two states were sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction. arise out of or relate to the defendant's contacts' with the forum."[[N: at 6 (quoting Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Superior Ct. San Francisco Cty. ,

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CEQA Developments

APRIL 4, 2022

Since July 2011, Real Party (Lafferty) has been attempting to develop its 32-acre site in the Garaventa Hills with a residential development project consistent with its zoning. Please contact Arthur F. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years.

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MARCH 3, 2021

With respect to my second reason, CEQA is generally an active area of law in terms of appellate cases, new legislation, and other significant developments; keeping track of the published – i.e., most important – cases is a big enough task without worrying about the even greater number of non-precedential unpublished ones. Who knows? –

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

Earlier in the year, Jim was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Kutztown University for his conservation education accomplishments through the International Global Wildlife Educational Internship Program as well as his work on wildlife heritage in the Commonwealth. The international program started with students from Israel.

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