Real Property eNews

Members of the San Diego RPLS enjoyed a relaxing evening and a chance to reconnect with colleagues at the Networking Mixer on February 5th. The Mixer was held at California Business Law Group’s offices at the historic Rynearson House in Golden Hill and was sponsored by San Diego Evictions and the Law Office of Ashley M. Peterson. Read more

One of my favorite events that the Real Property Law Section hosts is the Real Estate and Law Symposium, or “REAL,” as it is more commonly known. REAL was held for the ninth time on February 5, 2020 at Stanford Law School. Read more

CLA RPLS had a great social in Sacramento on January 30, 2020 at the beautiful Sutter Club, just a block or so from the Capitol Building. Real Property teamed up for the first time with the Environmental, Business and Tax sections of the California Lawyers Association. Read more

The Housing Crisis Act will strip cities and counties across California of their ability to avoid housing production because it removes the main tool used by housing opponents – unpredictability, subjectivity and delay. To deny a housing project application, cities and counties will now have to make an objective determination and make it more quickly. Read more

Covington v. Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control Dist. (2019) _ Cal.App.5th _ , 2019 WL 7169140: In a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenge to the approval of a geothermal power plant to be located on federal land in Mono County, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District (District) was the proper lead agency to undertake preparation of an environmental impact report, and the permit limiting the daily Reactive Organic Gas (ROG) emissions was sufficient evidence of the amount of the emissions. Read more

Our firm, as well as the entire community of California real property lawyers, has lost a great friend and colleague. Marvin Starr was arguably the most well-known real estate tax lawyer of his day. Read more

We are so excited for the 39th Annual Real Property Law Section’s Spring Conference and Cannabis Law Symposium! We are so grateful to have each and every one of you attend this event and we are excited for all of the things that the Real Property Law Section has planned for you. Read more

December 2019 By Monty McIntyre California Case Summaries™ (https://californiacasesummaries.mykajabi.com) Monty A. McIntyre, Esq. is the publisher of California Case Summaries™. Monty hasbeen a California civil trial lawyer since 1980, a member of ABOTA since 1995, and currently works as a full-time mediator, arbitrator and referee with ADR Services, Inc. (ADR) in ADR’s offices in San Diego, Irvine, and Los Angeles. California Case Summaries™provides short summaries, organized by legal topic, of every new published civil and family law case so California… Read more

By John (J.R.) Richards Well it’s the end of an era.  I knew Professor Bernhardt pretty well.  I was his student in a half dozen classes, and his teaching assistant in law school.  We stayed in contact after school.  We would organize yearly CLE’s for him to teach at both the Alameda County Bar Association and the Contra Costa County Bar Association.  His lovely wife Christine Tour-Sarkissian was also my professor.  I should say we were and are friends.  My… Read more

By Michael S. Klein The Real Property section is deeply saddened by the passing on October 13, 2019 of our great friend and recent past Section Chair Eric Remensperger (1957-2019). We will all miss Eric. His calm leadership during his term (2016-17) was instrumental during the difficult transition from operation under the auspices of the State Bar of California to the new California Lawyer’s Association. Born in Palo Alto, California, on April 11, 1957 to Nina and Bud Remensperger, Eric… Read more