Public Policy

  • The California Supreme Court on Monday said a San Diego ordinance regulating medical cannabis shops is the type of government activity that counts as a “project” in need of review under the California Environmental Quality Act, though the ruling’s effect on the ordinance at issue wasn’t immediately clear… Read this piece in its entirety at…

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  • Southern California residents and business owners who suffered property damage and losses as a result of the Woolsey Fire last year can pursue their negligence case against the Boeing Co. and Southern California Edison Co. in state court, a California federal judge ruled on Friday. .. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • California authorities on Wednesday once again put themselves at odds with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announcing a plan to phase out the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos in the state after the federal regulator decided not to ban the chemical… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A New York federal judge has said the U.S. departments of State and Defense can’t reduce the rate at which the court ordered them to produce documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request centering on the killing of Saudi-born, U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A California appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that the city of Los Angeles didn’t conduct a sufficiently thorough environmental impact study for a controversial, $664 million proposed real estate development in Hollywood… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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