The Court of Appeal upheld the City's determination that compensatory mitigation for the loss of a historic building in the form of funding of other historic preservation was not feasible because...

As part of the Obama Administration’s year-old effort to review the regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and improve regulatory efficiency pursuant to the President’s January 18, 2011, Executive Order 13563, the Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for its landowner incentive programs under the ESA.

After two-and-a-half years of public review, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) has approved a comprehensive set of policies to address climate change and the resulting sea level rise anticipated to occur in San Francisco Bay.

On June 1, 2023, The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking public comment on potential amendments to the Risk...

In June 2012, the Fed, the FDIC, and the OCC approved these joint NPRs, which would revise their current regulatory capital standards.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved FINRA's proposed amendments (Amendments) to Rule 4210 on July 27, 2023.

In 2011, the Small Business Association ("SBA"), implemented regulation changes that affected small business contractors.

Our weekly roundup aims to keep our readers up to date on recent notable rulings in the food & consumer packaged goods space.

In Parrish v. Vulcan Materials Company, 2025 WL 2710407 (D. Ariz. Sep. 23, 2025), the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona granted an employer's motion to compel arbitration...

Several class action complaints filed in recent months take a novel approach regarding the requirements for website privacy policies under California's "Shine the Light" law.

On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission published in the Federal Register the amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule it announced on January 16, 2025.

A change from heavy regulation of vineyards to a complete ban on new vineyards did not so destabilize the original project description as to amount to a prejudicial abuse of discretion and require a new EIR.

State law requires the housing element of a city's general plan to identify adequate sites and plan for future housing needs for residents of all income levels.

In New Commune DTLA LLC v. City of Redondo Beach, 115 Cal.App.5th 111 (2025), the Second District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment upholding Redondo Beach's housing element and ordered the trial court...

Petitioners were not "successful parties" entitled to attorneys' fees under Code of Civil Procedure 1021.5 after the Legislature abrogated their legal victories by statute and the Supreme Court...

The First District Court of Appeal held that the City of Santa Rosa did not abuse its discretion under the Surplus Land Act when it declared a city-owned downtown parking garage to be surplus land...

The Court of Appeal confirmed that the rights to floodwater captured and stored in an aquifer beneath property were not personal property but rather appurtenant to the land and were transferred...

A landowner sought a Certificate of Compliance from the City of Oakland, asserting that a pre-1972 deed referencing three lots (Lot 18, Lot 17, and a portion of Lot 16) created three separate legal parcels.

Eviction moratoria are increasingly challenged in the courts. On August 12th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order partially enjoining enforcement of New York's COVID-19 Emergency Eviction...

Dr. George Bonanno, professor of psychology at Columbia University and head of the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab, joins us to challenge everything you think you know about trauma and resilience.