California Court of Appeal

Denial of a petition for writ of mandate and a claim for declaratory relief is affirmed in a case alleging violations of the California Environmental Quality Act and agency-defendant's own regulations regarding its decision to renew a number of pesticide registrations for a calendar year.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/15/2006
• Published 02/16/2006

Judges

• RAYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Law Offices of Thomas N. Lippe, Thomas N. Lippe;  and Michael W. Graf, El Cerrito, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Matthew J. Goldman, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Respondents., McKenna Long & Aldridge, Stanley W. Landfair, Ann G. Grimaldi, and Eric S.C. Lindstrom, San Francisco, for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents Dow AgroSciences, Gowan Company, Platte Chemical Company, and Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., Howrey Simon Arnold & White, Buckmaster de Wolf, Lisa S. Buccino, San Francisco, and David B. Weinberg, for Real Parties in Interest and Respondents FMC Corporation and Makhteshim Agan of North America, Inc.