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 …
If your company uses a standard employment arbitration agreement, the California Court of Appeal just handed you a reason to pull it out and read it carefully. Not because of a federal statute that’s been generating headlines. Because of California’s own unconscionability doctrine, applied with a level of specificity that should make any employer uncomfortable if the last time anyone …
Horst Legal Counsel | April 2026 If you own, operate, or invest in a hotel or extended-stay property in California, you have probably heard of the “28-day shuffle.” The playbook is familiar: require all guests to check out before they hit 30 consecutive days of occupancy, make them stay away for a few days, and then let them re-register. The …