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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

By John (J.R.) Richards Eric Altoon and Tom Lombardi I am here with two really important people in the real estate law world, the Chair of the LA County Bar Association Real Estate Section, Eric Altoon and the Co-Chair of the California Lawyers Association Real Property Section Tom Lombardi. Mr. Altoon is the principal of the Law Offices of Eric A. Altoon located in Porter Beach, California.  Tom Lombardi, as we know from our former interview soon to be reposted,… Read more

November 2019 Monty McIntyre 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… Read more

Robert McCormick By Robert McCormick INTRODUCTION On October 8th, Governor Gavin Newsom held a ceremonial bill signing for AB 1482, the much heralded Tenant Protection Act of 2019, that enacts significant California state-wide rent control and tenant protection measures.  This new law surprisingly arrives just one year after housing developers raised more than 70 million dollars to defeat Proposition 10, the ballot initiative that would have removed the existing statewide ban enacted in 1995 under the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act… Read more

By Co-Chairpersons Steven W. DeLateur and Tara Burd Steven W. DeLateur and Tara Burd Welcome to the 2019-2020 RPLS ExCom Year! As the incoming Co-Chairs, we are so excited for all the opportunities the California Lawyers Association Real Property Law Section has to offer.  This marks the beginning of the first full ExCom year that the Sections will have the support of full-time staff from an organization that puts the Sections and lawyer services first. Although the CLA is only a… Read more