Despite decades of legislative progress, individuals with disabilities continue to face significant barriers in finding fair and accessible housing.
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.
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