As Nossaman’s annual eminent domain seminars are coming up on April 21st and April 28th, we thought it would be a perfect opportunity to do a little refresher on the condemnation process so that attendees are ready to dive in at the upcoming seminars.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Nossaman's California Water Views – 2023 Outlook. April 1st is an important milestone in California's water year – marking the annual snowpack assessment...

In Serrano v. California Public Employees Retirement System (Case No. C098392, February 25, 2025), the Third District Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the CalPERS...

On February 12, 2026, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) voted 3-0 to list mountain lions (Puma concolor) in Southern and Central California as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).

t's no secret that patients from marginalized groups experience lower quality health care. Acknowledging its role in closing the health care disparity gap, the Joint Commission recently announced...

As the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) continues to modernize, retail licensees should prepare for a major shift in the timelines and format for paying wholesale licensees.

COVID-19 accelerated the trend of physician employment with hospitals, with recent data showing that nearly 70 percent of physicians are employed by hospitals or hospital-affiliated foundations or groups.

In California, the primary governing structure for condemnation suits is set forth within Title 7 of the California Code of Civil Procedure (CCP 1230.010, et. seq.), otherwise known as the Eminent Domain Act, which was enacted in 1975.

The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Privacy and Data Protection Task Force announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA).

Awards were made to 24 recipients under the Accelerator Program, but U.S. DOT paused activity on the Accelerator Program as well.

In 2024, in what was heralded as a big win for developers in California, the U.S. Supreme Court upended decades of California precedent and held that legislatively enacted development impact fees must satisfy the "essential nexus" and "rough proportionality" tests ...

As detailed in Part 1 of this eAlert, on April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS).

For those businesses and advisors seeking the convenience and quick turn-around of electronic filings with the California Secretary of State (SoS)...

A federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of several Trump administration policies that restricted renewable energy development on federal lands and waters. The ruling addresses Interior Department review procedures, database access restrictions, capacity density requirements, and permit prioritization directives that created barriers for wind and solar projects.

On November 20, 2023, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Idaho Conservation League v. Poe, No. 22-35978.

On September 30, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in a case challenging the agency's final rule downlisting...

On May 25, 2023, the federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied a motion by plaintiffs seeking to halt construction of the Vineyard Wind project offshore of Massachusetts...

On December 6, the Biden Administration released the Fall 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda), which lists the regulatory and deregulatory actions...

The Global Infrastructure Investor Association has released its P3 Report Card, grading all 50 U.S. states on their readiness to leverage public-private partnerships for infrastructure development.

On Friday, July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), Public Law No: 119-21 (The OBBB Act).