On April 4, 2024, Governor Newsom and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) announced that the Bureau awarded California $15 million for the Delta-Mendota Canal floating solar project.

When water agencies provide water to customers, and that water causes damage to customer property, can water agencies face inverse condemnation liability?

When one hears "eminent domain" or "condemnation," you might envision a governmental agency or utility coming in and acquiring the entirety of a piece of property and leaving nothing behind.

UPDATE: On April 21, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted the State of Kentucky's request for an administrative stay of the Biden administration's 2023 WOTUS rule.

A key priority of the Newsom Administration – the Delta Conveyance Project – has officially entered its next chapter. On July 22, the Department of Water Resources...

On November 21, 2025, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, the Services) published several proposed rules to revise their regulations implementing certain provisions of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Given California's shortage of primary care providers, nurse practitioners ("NPs") are increasingly being asked to fill gaps in provider coverage.

To stem the recent tide of high-profile corporate "DExit" moves, Delaware has enacted Substitute 1 to Senate Bill 21 (SB 21) to amend the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) effective March 25, 2025.

For decades, California water suppliers operated under a shield from inverse condemnation claims associated with delivery of water to their customers. Courts had rejected homeowners’ claims associated with pipe corrosion or pinhole leaks...

If you have been following water infrastructure construction news over the past year, you have certainly been keeping up to date on the tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump and wondering how these tariffs have affected, and will affect, the price of water infrastructure projects throughout the United States.

On April 2, 2025, the Court of Appeal for California's Fifth Appellate District issued its decision in Bring Back the Kern v. City of Bakersfield, 2025 S.O.S. 909.

The Committee on Natural Resources (Committee) in the U.S. House of Representatives is considering a number of bills regarding wildlife, including bills to reauthorize the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, Services) published a final rule rescinding the Trump administration's 2020...

The western pond turtle was split into two species, northwestern and southwestern, in 2017.

A recent unpublished California Court of Appeal decision—Najibi v. Providence Valley Service Area Community Ministry Board—illustrates real-world tensions that arise when hospital boards and medical staffs approach the same situation from different institutional vantage points.

On September 23, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an Opinion and Order in Mid-America Milling Co., LLC, et al., v. U.S. Department of Transportation, et. al., No. 3:23-CV-00072-GFVT, 2024 WL 4267183 (E.D. Ky. Sept. 23, 2024).

The Arizona Court of Appeals recently held that members of a homeowners' association are not entitled to severance damages...

Under Arizona’s Constitution, as under its federal counterpart, a condemning authority may acquire private property if the use to which the acquired property will be put is a proper public use. From the outset of any contemplated acquisition, it is imperative that a governmental entity determine that the purpose for the acquisition will constitute a public use. This article summarizes some of the law governing public use.

When a municipality acquires private property in an eminent domain case, it must first pay just compensation to the property owner.

Federal and California tax agencies have announced several relief measures for taxpayers affected by the storms that started shortly before New Year's Eve and ended (for the time being)...