Real Property Law Section

In light of the evolving guidance regarding social distancing and other efforts to mitigate spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes—COVID-19, CLA made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel all in-person CLA meetings, events and activities for March and April. Unfortunately for our section, that means cancelling the much-anticipated Spring Conference and Cannabis Law Symposium that were scheduled for April 23-25. Read more

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Here at the CLA RPLS, we talk a lot about the very real housing crisis in California. As shown in the California legislature, the government has a hard time dealing with it. The enactment of local rent control laws is yet another result of the housing crisis. This book really hits home. It’s not downtown Oakland or San Francisco or Berkeley, places that are uniquely urban. Read more

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. Read more

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

Join us for a networking event on March 5th in Riverside. 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