https://www.msrlegal.com en msr@msrlegal.com Copyright 2026 2026-04-06T16:42:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/one-year-after-the-la-fires-rebuilding-recovery-and-resilience-in-the-midst-of-a-housing-crisis https://www.msrlegal.com/news/one-year-after-the-la-fires-rebuilding-recovery-and-resilience-in-the-midst-of-a-housing-crisis#When:14:54:00Z On January 7, 2025, a series of fires began that ripped through Southern California, leaving significant destruction in their wake.

]]> 2026-03-20T14:54:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/developments-in-landlord-tenant-law-a-2025-year-in-review-courts-emphasize-contract-and-statutory-adherence-while-the-legislature-expands-tenant-protections https://www.msrlegal.com/news/developments-in-landlord-tenant-law-a-2025-year-in-review-courts-emphasize-contract-and-statutory-adherence-while-the-legislature-expands-tenant-protections#When:16:00:00Z The year 2025 brought continued development in California landlord-tenant law on two fronts.

]]> 2026-01-01T16:00:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/ab-130s-non-ceqa-housing-amendments-bringing-to-life-californias-abundance-agenda https://www.msrlegal.com/news/ab-130s-non-ceqa-housing-amendments-bringing-to-life-californias-abundance-agenda#When:17:27:00Z On June 30, 2025, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 130 (“AB 130”) into law in service of California’s “Abundance Agenda.”

]]> 2025-11-19T17:27:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/building-for-abundance-the-ceqa-reforms-behind-ab-130-and-sb-131 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/building-for-abundance-the-ceqa-reforms-behind-ab-130-and-sb-131#When:15:53:00Z On June 30, 2025, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1301 (“AB 130”) and Senate Bill 1312 (“SB 131”) into law, making the most significant changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) in decades.

]]> 2025-09-05T15:53:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/anti-discrimination-and-disability-rights-in-real-estate-past-present-and-future https://www.msrlegal.com/news/anti-discrimination-and-disability-rights-in-real-estate-past-present-and-future#When:15:33:00Z Despite decades of legislative progress, individuals with disabilities continue to face significant barriers in finding fair and accessible housing.

]]> 2025-07-01T15:33:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/the-federal-clean-water-act-in-2025-a-retracting-construction https://www.msrlegal.com/news/the-federal-clean-water-act-in-2025-a-retracting-construction#When:16:38:00Z More than 50 years ago, the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA or Act) was enacted by Congress to protect the quality of the Nation’s waters.

]]> 2025-05-05T16:38:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/jccrandall-llc-v.-county-of-santa-barbara-will-a-dispute-over-the-use-of-an-easement-send-the-concept-of-legal-cannabis-cultivation-up-in-smoke https://www.msrlegal.com/news/jccrandall-llc-v.-county-of-santa-barbara-will-a-dispute-over-the-use-of-an-easement-send-the-concept-of-legal-cannabis-cultivation-up-in-smoke#When:19:36:00Z Cannabis is a multi-billion-dollar industry in California.

]]> 2025-03-04T19:36:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/commercial-property-owners-and-sb-1103-new-consumer-type-protections-for-qualified-commercial-tenants-in-non-residential-leasing-transactions https://www.msrlegal.com/news/commercial-property-owners-and-sb-1103-new-consumer-type-protections-for-qualified-commercial-tenants-in-non-residential-leasing-transactions#When:16:23:00Z On September 30, 2024, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1103, an unprecedented legislative measure affecting non-residential landlords’ transactions with a broadly defined class of “qualified commercial tenants.”

]]> 2025-01-02T16:23:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/article-the-evolving-law-of-waiver-under-the-california-arbitration-act-predictions-for-a-post-quach-world https://www.msrlegal.com/news/article-the-evolving-law-of-waiver-under-the-california-arbitration-act-predictions-for-a-post-quach-world#When:23:07:00Z Nearly a century ago, and recognizing the courts’ historic hostility toward arbitration agreements, Congress, followed shortly by the California Legislature, adopted laws intended to “favor” arbitration.

]]> 2024-10-25T23:07:00+00:00 https://www.msrlegal.com/news/sheetz-v.-el-dorado-county-death-knell-for-development-fee-programs-or-harbinger-of-judicial-deference https://www.msrlegal.com/news/sheetz-v.-el-dorado-county-death-knell-for-development-fee-programs-or-harbinger-of-judicial-deference#When:22:16:00Z The United States Supreme Court’s most recent Takings case, Sheetz v. El Dorado County, California1 enunciated a seemingly simple holding, that legislatively-imposed development fees are not, as such, exempt from analysis under the Court’s “unconstitutional conditions doctrine” under Nollan v. Cali­fornia Coastal Commission2 and Dolan v. City of Tigard.3

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