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If your company is thinking about challenging a rate or fee that a city or public agency just imposed, you’re probably focused on the merits. Is the charge too high? Does it fold in costs it shouldn’t? Those are the questions that eventually win a case. But in California there’s a threshold question that can end the fight before a …
Here’s the trade every developer knows. A CEQA categorical exemption means no environmental impact report, no months of study, no public comment cycle. You show your project fits an exempt category, and you move. A unanimous California Supreme Court just rewrote the argument you have to make to claim one of the most common of those exemptions, and if you’ve …
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 …
California Businesses Cannot Recover Every Legal Fee in Cascading Litigation Horst Legal Counsel | April 2026 Someone torpedoes your deal. You spend north of a million dollars in court forcing the sale through. You win. Then you sue the people who caused the mess in the first place, and you win again. But the second lawsuit cost you another $841,000 …