- Representing the developers of a supportive and affordable housing project in Venice, California in litigation challenging the City of Los Angeles’s approval of the project.
- Representing a real estate developer in lawsuits against the government and its contractor seeking billions of dollars in damages resulting from the botched cleanup of a former naval shipyard that is the subject of San Francisco’s largest redevelopment project in a century.
- Representing an aerospace company in federal and state cost recovery actions alleging perchlorate contamination in the Rialto-Colton Groundwater Basin.
- Representing oil companies challenging a de facto moratorium on the issuance of well stimulation permits by the State of California, including claims that state officials lack statutory authority to adopt a de facto moratorium and that the agency has implemented an underground regulation.
- Representing oil companies challenging ordinances adopted by the City and County of Los Angeles, declaring oil operations as a nonconforming use. The city’s ordinance also prohibits the drilling, redrilling, and maintenance of existing wells. The lawsuits include claims that the ordinance is preempted by state law, and that the ordinances interfere with the operator’s vested rights and represent an unconstitutional taking of property without the payment of just compensation.
- Advising a renewable energy producer in the development of anaerobic digestion facilities nationwide.
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