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Light v. State Water Resources Control Board

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Water Law
The trial court erred in granting a writ of mandate invalidating defendant-board's adoption of a regulation that is likely to require a reduction in...

SPRAWLDEF v. S.F. Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law
In an action challenging defendants' approval of permits to allow a third party to expand the Potrero Hills Landfill, judgment in favor of plaintiff...

Sierra Club v. County of Fresno

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Judgment in favor of defendants in an action challenging the approval by defendant-county of a master-planned community project is: 1) affirmed in...

People of the State of California v. US Dept. of the Interior

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Water Law
Summary judgment in favor of federal defendants and intervenor water districts in an action challenging an environmental impact statement prepared by...

City of Pomona v. SQM North America Corporation

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Water Law
In an action alleging that defendant's importation of sodium nitrate for fertilizer was the source of the presence of perchlorate contamination in...

National Resources Defense Council v. Jewell

Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action brought by environmental groups under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) concerning long-term contracts the federal Bureau of Reclamation...

Center for Biological Diversity v. Dept. Fish & Wildlife

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
Judgment for plaintiffs in their challenge to defendant's certification of the revised final environmental impact statement and impact report,...

Property Reserve, Inc. v. Superior Court (Department of Water Resources)

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In an action arising out of the State's attempt to conduct precondemnation activities to conduct testing on properties on which a tunnel to transport...

San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Jewell

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law, Evidence, Water Law
The district court's judgment invalidating a 2008 biological opinion by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that concluded that the Central...

Morgan v. Imperial Irrigation District

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Water Law
The trial court did not err in determining that the defendant-Irrigation District complied with Proposition 218 in its passage of new water rates,...