August 18, 2020 Appellate Court Holds Public Agencies Must Retain Internal Email Correspondence Related to CEQA Projects On July 20, 2020, California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal published an opinion that may have far-reaching consequences for public agencies conducting environmental analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). In Golden […]
August 18, 2020 Megan A. Elliott MGKF Litigation Blog On August 10, 2020, the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of defendants’ motion for summary judgement, permitting plaintiffs’ case to move forward in a Superfund action for contribution. See Arconic v. APC Investment, No. 19-55181 (9th Cir. Aug. 10, 2020), […]
Written by Benjamin J. Hyland During the COVID-19 declared State of Emergency in Massachusetts, the state’s reporting, testing, cleanup, compliance, enforcement and other matters under the Massachusetts Oil and Hazardous Material Release Prevention and Response Act (G.L. c.21E) have been the subject of MassDEP Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup (BWSC) guidance […]
Written by Michael J. O’Neill, Esq. The decision of the Appeals Court in Henry W. Comstock, Jr., Trustee and another v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Gloucester and others, authored by Justice James Milkey, illustrates the strong protections afforded by G.L. c. 40 A, section 6 to owners of single- or two-family […]
August 13, 2020 Michael Dillon and Megan A. Elliott MGKF NewsFlash On August 5, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) (collectively, the “Services”) published a proposed definition of the word “habitat” to be added to the Endangered Species Act’s implementing regulations, 50 […]