“This is not what we normally do. We do land use, real estate, development law. Heck, I can get you zoning to be an airport if that’s what you want. But I don’t represent inmates, I don’t represent people charged with crime, I don’t represent criminals.”
— Land use lawyer Joshua
Today, we had the opportunity to take a tour of The Geysers geothermal dry steam field and one of its 16 electricity generation facilities, the McCabe 5 generation plant. The Geysers is the world’s largest energy production site fueled by geothermal.
Twelve miles up a country road from Sonoma County’s vineyards, the field was first
For anyone who deals with state, municipal, and local government law, here’s a must-follow blog: The Municipal Minute, produced by our ABA State & Local Government Law Section colleague (and fellow U. Hawaii Law alum) Julie A. Tappendorf. Julie is a partner in the Chicago office Ancel Glink, and practices local government, land
You have to like any sport that the New York Times describes as “like driving full speed through an endless loop of red lights. Luck often expires in a cloudburst of steam and scattered auto parts.” That’s how the Times described “figure 8 car racing.”
But not everyone likes figure 8 racing or
Here’s what we’re reading this fine summer Monday:
Not the California Court of Appeals, Second District. Edna Valley Watch v. County of San Luis Obispo, No. B223653 (Aug 2, 2011), slip op. at 2, n.2 .
Oh yeah, the holding: administrative proceedings are “actions” thus entitling parties — opponents of the building of a church — who participated in those proceedings and
One of the very first things we addressed in the first year Property class (wonderfully taught by Allen Smith, visiting from Michigan Law) was the ownership of animals: when do wild animals become someone’s “property?” And the very first Latin phrase we incorporated into our new legal lexicon was ferae naturae, the law
Later this week, I’ll be attending the annual scrum of lawyers known as the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, being held this year in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’ll be attending the gatherings of the State & Local Government Law Section and the Litigation Section (Condemnation, Zoning & Land Use Committee), and the meeting of
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. In Bridge Aina Lea, LLC v. State of Hawaii Land Use Comm’n, the plaintiff filed its complaint in state circuit court alleging that the LUC violated state and federal law (due process, takings, vested rights, and more) when it reclassified “urban” land on the Big
