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Cannabis is a multi-billion-dollar industry in California.

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.”

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.

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

A landowner desiring to enter into a license agreement for the use of real property must take care to ensure that the license agreement does not contain terms that inadvertently waive the landowner’s right to recover the property through the summary proceeding of an unlawful detainer action. 

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has long required a full analysis of project's potential adverse effects on the environment.