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One Day Seminar – Register Now! ~ Only $35

Featured Speaker: PAUL DOLAN, world-renowned winemaker, biodynamic grape grower, author, consultant and businessman is coming to the Motherlode Region on April 28, 2010, with a team of engineers and attorneys to strategize and help you balance economic and related business issues with environmentaland land use goals and obligations.

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In the second time in two months, the California Supreme Court announced that once a Notice of Exemption (“NOE”) for a project is filed, the applicable statute of limitations is 35 days – regardless of the circumstances surrounding the NOE. On April 1, 2010, the Court held that a citizens’ suit challenging a project under the California Environmental Quality Act was barred by the 35-day statute of limitations contained in Public Resources Code section 21167 subdivision (d) because the City of Stockton had filed a facially valid NOE.
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Abbott & Kindermann, LLP launches California Settlements & Colonies, a blog chronicling California historic settlement stories, starting with San Bernardino, California 1851 – 1857 the Largest Latter-day Saint Colony Outside of Utah and the Largest Anglo-American Settlement in Southern California. Visit the California Settlements & Colonies by going directly to http://californialandsettlements.com/ or clicking on the Colonies and Settlements link at https://blog.aklandlaw.com/. Share your settlement story by clicking “submit your own story.”…
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By Leslie Z. Walker

Almost three years after Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. filed suit against the County of San Bernardino for failing to consider the impacts of the County’s General Plan on Global Warming, the Amendments to the CEQA Guidelines Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions mandated by Senate Bill 97 (Chapter 185, Statues 2007; Pub. Resources Code, § 21083.05), take effect today.
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By: Cori Badgley

In yet another CEQA case involving whether an agreement between a tribe and a city constitutes a project, the court held that CEQA did not apply to an agreement requiring the city’s formal support of a proposed casino and the tribe to pay for future, as of yet undefined, city services and improvements.
Continue Reading City Gambles and Wins on Agreement with Tribe Over Casino: CEQA Does Not Apply

In a decision filed on February 11, 2009, Committee for Green Foothills v. Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, et al. (2010) __ Cal.2d ___, the California Supreme Court reversed the Sixth Appellate District Court of Appeal holding that the filing of a notice of determination (NOD) triggers a 30-day statute of limitations for all California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenges to the decision announced in the notice regardless of the nature of the CEQA violation.
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