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  • Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College District

    Publication Date: 2017-05-08
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Education | Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-05-05
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent: Susan Brandt-Hawley, Brandt-Hawley Law Group.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendants and Appellants: Eugene Whitlock, San Mateo County Counsel, James G. Moose, Remy Moose Manley LLP, Sabrina V. Teller, Remy Moose Manley LLP, John T. Wheat, Remy Moose Manley LLP.
    Case Number: No. A135892

    Substantial evidence did not support agency's determination that changes to project required only addendum to previous negative declaration (Humes, P.J.)

  • Wildwest Institute v. Kurth

    Publication Date: 2017-04-28
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-04-28
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dana L. Christensen, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Kay Smith (argued), Public Interest Defense Center, Missoula, Montana; Timothy M. Bechtold, Bechtold Law Firm, Missoula, Montana; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
    for defendant: Robert Parke Stockman (argued), H. Hubert Yang, David C. Shilton, and Andrew C. Mergen, Attorneys; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Kristin Tita, Office of the Solicitor, Rocky Mountain Region, United States Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado; for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 14-35431

    Species "listing priority number" not sole factor to be considered in determining whether or not to list it as endangered (Gould, J.)

  • Save Our Heritage Organisation v. City of San Diego (Plaza De Panama Committee)

    Publication Date: 2017-04-27
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Non–Profit | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-04-27
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandt-Hawley Law Group and Susan Brandt-Hawley for Plaintiff and Respondent Save Our Heritage Organisation.
    for defendant: No appearance for Defendants and Respondents City of San Diego et al.
    Case Number: No. D070006

    No award of private attorney general fees against unsuccessful public interest litigant (McConnell, P.J.)

  • Sierra Club v. County of Sonoma (Ohlson)

    Publication Date: 2017-04-24
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-04-21
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiffs and Appellants: Mark R. Wolfe; M.R. Wolfe & Associates, P.C. (Sierra Club), Justin Augustine; Center for Biological Diversity.
    for defendant: Counsel for Defendant and Respondents: Bruce D. Goldstein; County Counsel, Jeffrey M. Brax; Chief Deputy Counsel.
    Case Number: No. A147340

    County's approval of erosion-control permit for new vineyard not discretionary act subject to CEQA. (Humes, P.J.)

  • Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Publication Date: 2017-04-12
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-04-12
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Robert Holmes Bell,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melissa Thorme (argued), Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Eileen T. McDonough (argued), Attorney; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Marcela von Vacano, Assistant Regional Counsel, Region 9, United States Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, California; Pooja S. Parikh, Attorney-Advisor, Office of the General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.
    Case Number: No. 14-74047

    No jurisdiction to review EPA "objection letter" (Bybee, J.)

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  • POET, LLC v. State Air Resources Board

    Publication Date: 2017-04-11
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-04-10
    Court: C.A. 5th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wanger Jones Helsley, Timothy Jones, John P. Kinsey, and Dylan J. Crosby for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Xavier Becerra, Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Robert W. Bryne, Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, M. Elaine Meckenstock, Melinda Piling and Myung J. Park, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. F073340

    State Air Resources Board's 2015 low carbon fuel standards regulations failed to comply with CEQA (Franson, J.)

  • California Chamber of Commerce v. State Air Resources Board

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Regulation
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-04-06
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, James R. Parrinello, Steven A. Merksamer, Kurt R. Oneto, Christopher E. Skinnell and Eric J. Miethke for Plaintiffs and Appellants California Chamber of Commerce and Larry Dicke.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe, Molly K. Mosley, Deputy Attorney General, David A. Zonana, Robert E. Asperger, M. Elaine Meckenstock, and Bryant B. Cannon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. C075930 No. C075954

    State Air Resources Board's "cap-and-trade" auction program not unlawful tax (Duarte, J.)

  • State of Arizona, ex rel. Darwin v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-04-03
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Jay S. Bybee, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carroll McGuffey III (argued) and Justin Wong, Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; Paul L. Gale, Troutman Sanders LLP, Irvine, California; Peter S. Glaser, Troutman Sanders LLP, Washington, D.C.; James T. Skardon, Assistant Attorney General, Environmental Enforcement Section; Mark Brnovich, Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona; for Petitioner State of Arizona.
    for defendant: Samara M. Spence (argued), Trial Attorney; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Matthew C. Marks and M. Lea Anderson, EPA Office of General Counsel, Washington, D.C.; Charlotte Withey, EPA Office of Regional Counsel, Region IX, San Francisco, California; for Respondents.
    Case Number: No. 14-73368 No. 14-73384 No. 14-73386 No. 14-73394

    EPA's imposition of emission-control measures on Arizona cement kilns and copper smelters neither arbitrary nor capricious (Bybee, J.)

  • Banning Ranch Conservancy v. City of Newport Beach (Newport Banning Ranch LLC)

    Publication Date: 2017-03-30
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: State and Local Government | Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-03-30
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leibold McClendon & Mann, John G. McClendon, Douglas M. Johnson and David H. Mann for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Aaron Harp, City Attorney, Leonie Mulvihill, Assistant City Attorney; Remy Moose Manley, Whitman F. Manley and Jennifer S. Holman for Defendants and Appellants.
    Case Number:

    Consideration of environmentally sensitive coastal habitat areas may not be deferred until after project approval (Corrigan, J.)

  • Yazzie v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

    Publication Date: 2017-03-20
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Native American Law
    Industry: Energy
    Date Filed: 2017-03-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Stephen S. Trott, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brad A. Bartlett (argued), Environmental Law Clinic, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado; John Barth, Hygiene, Colorado; for Petitioners To-Nizhoni Ani, Black Mesa Water Coalition, and Dine Citizens Against Ruining our Environment.
    for defendant: David A. Carson (argued), Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Denver, Colorado; Daniel R. Dertke, Environmental Defense Section; John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Ann Lyons, Office of Regional Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, San Francisco, California; Lea Anderson, Office of the General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.
    Case Number: No. 14-73100 No. 14-73101 No. 14-73102

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 2559 VINCENT HARRIS YAZZIE, Petitioner, v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROT