California Court of Appeal

The California Environmental Quality Act requires the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report whenever substantial evidence supports an argument that an ordinance will cause potentially significant adverse environmental impacts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2005
• Published 04/01/2005

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Somach, Simmons & Dunn and Roberta L. Larson, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Appellant California Association of Sanitation Agencies., Griswold, LaSalle, Cobb, Dowd & Gin, Robert M. Dowd and Raymond L. Carlson, Hanford, for Plaintiff and Appellant Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works., Jones & Beardsley, Mark A. Jones;  Borton, Petrini & Conron and Roger A. Parkinson, Bakersfield, for Plaintiff and Appellant Responsible Biosolids Management, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Daniel V. Hyde and Paul J. Beck, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant County Sanitation District No. 2 of Los Angeles County., Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, Thomas L. Woodruff, Tami S. Crosby, Roberta A. Kraus and M. Lois Bobak, Orange, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant Orange County Sanitation District., Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney, Christopher M. Westhoff, Assistant City Attorney, and Keith W. Pritsker, Deputy City Attorney, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant City of Los Angeles., Bernard C. Barmann, Sr., County Counsel, James H. Thebeau, Deputy County Counsel;  Hogan Guiney Dick and Michael M. Hogan, San Diego, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant and for Defendant and Appellant., Law Offices of Young Wooldridge, Ernest A. Conant, Scott K. Kuney and Steven M. Torigiani, Bakersfield, for Intervener and Respondent Arvin-Edison Water Storage District., McMurtrey, Hartsock & Worth, James A. Worth;  and Linda Alvarado, Bakersfield, for Interveners and Respondents Cawelo Water District and West Kern Water District.