California Court of Appeal

Trial court's grant of plaintiff's petition for writ of mandate challenging defendant's approval of the Design Plan Application on California Environmental Quality Act grounds is reversed where the approval of the application was a ministerial act and not a discretionary act, and was thus exempt from environmental review under CEQA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2009
• Published 06/10/2009

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brownstein HyattFarber Schreck, Lisabeth D. Rothman, Diane C. DeFelice and Timothy H. Irons, Los Angeles, for Real Party in Interest and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Best Best & Krieger, Michelle Ouellette and Charity B. Schiller, Riverside, for Defendant and Appellant., Johnson & Sedlack, Raymond W. Johnson, Temecula, Abigail A. Broedlling and Veera Tyagi, Temecula, for Plaintiff and Respondent.