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City of Santa Maria v. Adam

Water Law, Agriculture, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
In a water law action, arising from a dispute between landowners and public water producers over rights to groundwater contained in the Santa Maria...

Frangos v. Bank of America, N.A.

Property Law & Real Estate, Banking Law
In a suit brought by plaintiffs who had twice defaulted on their mortgage, against lenders seeking to forestall a planned foreclosure sale of their...

Austin v. Town of Farmington

Property Law & Real Estate, Civil Rights
In a suit against a Town asserting claims under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, 42 U.S.C. section...

Spring Valley Lake Assn. v. City of Victorville

Property Law & Real Estate, Environmental Law
In an action alleging a City failed to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Pub. Resources Code section 21000 et seq., and the...

Cheffins v. Stewart

Property Law & Real Estate, Injury & Tort Law, Entertainment Law
In an action under the Visual Artists Rights Act and Nevada law, in which Plaintiffs transformed a used school bus into La Contessa, a mobile replica...

Kinda v. Carpenter

Property Law & Real Estate, Landlord Tenant Law, Commercial Law, Cyberspace Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by commercial tenants seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against their landlord, alleging several...

Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In a dispute arising under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. sections 1311(a),1362(7), (12), and related regulations that allow property owners to...

Davis v. Wells Fargo

Property Law & Real Estate, Civil Procedure
In a follow-up to a foreclosure case, brought against the purported holder of mortgage and provider of insurance, seeking compensation for damage that...

People for Proper Planning v. City of Palm Springs

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an environmental action challenging the City’s adoption of a resolution approving an Amendment to the city's General Plan removing the minimum...

Sciarratta v. U.S. Bank

Property Law & Real Estate, Injury & Tort Law, Banking Law
In an action for wrongful foreclosure brought by a homeowner, alleging that as a result of a void assignment of her promissory note and deed of trust,...