When the Memo Line Won’t Save You: A California Court of Appeal Lesson on Reviving Time-Barred Debts

Horst Legal CounselBusiness Litigation

If your business is sitting on an old written loan that the borrower never repaid, and the only thing keeping your hopes alive is a couple of small, sporadic payments that arrived years after the due date, the California Court of Appeal just handed down a decision you should read carefully. Not because it broke new ground. Because it confirmed, …

The Coastal Commission Just Lost Its Biggest Jurisdictional Fight in Forty Years

Horst Legal CounselReal Estate Disputes, Real Estate Law

If you develop, invest in, or hold property along California’s coast, you already know the California Coastal Commission has enormous influence over what gets built and what doesn’t. For decades, the Commission has exercised broad appellate authority over local permitting decisions, sometimes overriding county approvals on jurisdictional grounds that property owners had limited ability to challenge. The California Supreme Court …