Legal Digest

Appellate court distinguishes between "source" thresholds and "receptor" thresholds. >>read more

Brown may not get his as-of-right bill passed. But lots of other housing bills are in the hopper. >>read more

Business owner's comments don't constitute substantial evidence in Downtown Joshua Tree fight over Dollar General. >>read more

Pacific Legal Foundation loses another one. >>read more

Oakland can't retroactively apply CUP in crematorium case. >>read more

You can't fix a bad EIR with an addendum, even when the addendum was supposed to fix the EIR. >>read more

In Wal-Mart case, Victorville gets caught between GP, EIR, and parcel map findings. >>read more

The City Council has changed its non-agenda public comment ordinance, but they're not off the hook yet. >>read more

An appellate court has denied an anti-SLAPP motion to strike in a long-running dispute between rival developers and the City of Carson. >>read more

Like a monster that’s been hiding in the basement for decades, rent control is rearing its head in the Bay Area. Whether it is an ugly countenance or a smiling face is a matter of perspective. >>read more

Overturning the decision of a trial judge, the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled that the City of Palm Springs’s decision to eliminate minimum residential densities from its general plan is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. >>read more