Legal Alerts

February 10, 2021 Court of Appeal Holds that a City’s Surcharge for Utility Services to Cover Voter Approved General Tax on Revenues from Customer Fees and Charges Did Not Violate Proposition 218  The Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District recently ruled in Wyatt v. City of Sacramento that […]

COVID-19 UPDATE February 10, 2021 Bruce S. Katcher MGKF Special Alert Effective February 1, 2021, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has issued a temporary rule extending various regulatory and mandatory remediation timeframes set forth in the Site Remediation Program rules due to the ongoing COVID-19 Public […]

Written by  Gregor I. McGregor, Esq. Three selected 2020 summary decisions of the Massachusetts Appeals Court illustrate, in short and sweet opinions, the implications of settlement negotiations by emails, tactical moves while challenging a local board’s decision, the ins and outs of getting permit extensions, what happens in court review of […]

January 27, 2021 Colorado Division of Water Resources Extends Public Comment Period for First-Ever Revisions to Groundwater Withdrawal Regulations  If you live in the Colorado Front Range region, your treated water supply may have or currently include groundwater from the Denver Basin aquifer system.  If you are one of the […]

January 29, 2021 Austin W. Manning MGKF Litigation Blog Last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) (collectively, the “Services”) finalized a rule defining the term “habitat” as used for designating “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (the “ESA”). The ESA […]