Attorney Articles
- Cutting Through the Thicket: Free Speech and Orderly Schools
Small Schools Districts' Association Newletter, May/June, 2013
- Stories From The Litigation Trenches: Confidential - Uncensored and Off the Record
Collector's Ink, November 2012
- Pension Reform Series: How Will PEPRA Affect Health Benefits That Can Be Offered?
CSDA e-News, November 26, 2012
- Developers Seeking New Sources of Finance After Redevelopment Agencies Vanish
Daily Journal, October 19, 2012
- Public Employee Privacy Rights: When Is An Employee’s Workplace His Castle?
SCBA Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, Vol. 19, Issue 1, October 2012
- Ballot Measures: From Express Advocacy to Informing the Public
California Special District Magazine, Vol. 7, Issue 5, Sept-Oct 2012
- Title IX: Winning the Gold in 2012
Small School Districts' Association Newsletter, Sept/Oct 2012
- The Tucson Herpetological Society v. Salazar Decision and Its Progeny: A Move Away From Blind Deference to Agency Decision-Making
California Water Law and Policy Reporter, March 2012
- Stories From The Litigation Trenches: Rosenthal FDCPA - 2011 In Review
Collector's Ink, Vol. LVII, No. 2, March/April 2012
- Federal Court Rules State "Area of Origin" Laws Do Not Require Bureau of Reclamation to Preferentially Deliver Water to the Sacramento Valley
California Water Law and Policy Reporter, October 2011
- Reconsidering Arbitration as a Defense to FDCPA Litigation in Light of the Recent Concepcion Opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court
MAPbulletin, Vol. 17, No. 9, September 2011
- The Wages of Subsidy: Searching for Value in Public-Private Development Deals
- Los Angeles Daily Journal, August 9, 2011
- Notes From The Litigation Trenches: Rosenthal FDCPA - 2010 In Review Part I
- Collector's Ink, Vol. LVI, No. 5, May/June 2011
- The Ninth Circuit Addresses the Concept of Default When the Consumer Has Entered into a Forebearance Agreement
MAPbulletin, Vol. 17, No. 5, May 2011
- Cost-Effective Construction Arbitration
- The Construction Lawyer, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2011
- Chronically Absent Employees: Hints for Handling FMLA Leaves
- Small School Districts' Association Newsletter, March/April, 2011
- The Outer Limits of Endangered Species Act Liability - The ESA's Indirect Effect Regulation and Its Application to Climate Change
- Environmental Law Reporter, March 2011
- U.S. District Court Grants Water Users' Challenge to Delta Smelt Biological Opinion - Finds Opinion and Its Restrictions on SWP and CVP Operations Unlawful
California Water Law and Policy Reporter, February 2011
- Drawing the Line on Prevailing Wages
- Los Angeles Daily Journal, Thursday, January 13, 2011
- A Short Introduction to Green Finance
- Urban Land Institute: Land Link, Fall 2010
- The Crossroads of NEPA and the ESA - A Four Way Stop for Federal Agencies
- ABA Agricultural Management Committee Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Nov. 2010)
- New Attention For Urban Water Management Plans: Urban Water Planning In California After The Water Conservation Act Of 2009
- ABA Water Resources Committee Newsletter, September 2010
- Practical Take Aways for Public Employers from the Supreme Court's Decision in City of Ontario v. Quon
- SCBA Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, Vol. 17, Issue 91, September 2010
- Attorney Letterhead after Lesher
- MAPbulletin, Vol. 16, No. 7, July 2010
- Small is the New Big: Downsizing and Creative Financing After the Burst of the Housing Bubble
- Redevelopment: Building Better Communities, June 2010
- The Wages of Subsidy: Prevailing Wages as the Cost of Public Assistance to Development Projects
- North State Builder, May-June 2010
- Taxing Bankruptcy Liquidation Sales
- California Bankruptcy Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2010)
- Tales from the Frontline: The 2009 Year in Review - The Rosenthal FDCPA
- Collector's Ink, Vol. LV, No. 5, May/June 2010
- Legal Uncertainly: Local Regulation of Medical Marijuana Collectives
- California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter, April 2010
- Environmental Effects of the Forest Project Protocol Version 3.0 in Question
- Pacific Municipal Consultant's "Carbon Conscious" Newsletter, Issue 5, Jan/Feb 2010
- Make Smart Growth a Smart Business Choice
- San Luis Obispo Tribune, Jan. 7, 2010
- Heightened Plausibility Pleading Standard Does Not Lead To Dismissal Of Recent District Of Massachusetts Case
- MAPbulletin, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 2010
- No Need To Set Forth All Components That Constitute Amount Of Debt In Initial 1692g Letter
- NL Member News, Vol. 72, January 2010
- Is 20 Percent by 2020 Good Law?
- Daily Journal, Nov. 20, 2009
- Should We Build an Ark to Comply with the ESA?
Applying the Endangered Species Act's Causation Element to Climate Change - ABA Water Resources Committee Newsletter, Nov. 2009
- Drafting an Effective Computer and E-mail Use Policy
- SCBA Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, Vol. 17, Issue 86, November 2009
- SB 375 and Special Districts: Transit Districts May Benefit
- California Special District, Vol. 4, Issue 5, Sept-Oct 2009
- Ninth Circuit Addresses Discovery Rule For FDCPA Claims
- MAPbulletin, Vol. 15, No. 9, September 2009
- Different Attitudes, Divergent Results: Potential Regional Variations in implementation of SB 375
- Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, September 2009
- The Wages of Subsidy: Prevailing Wages as the Cost of Public Assistance to Development Projects
- Central Coast Builder, June-July 2009
- Financial Incentive Programs To Go Green
- Central Coast Builder, Jan-Feb 2009
- Lizards Can Help You Take On The Economy
- Collector's Ink, Vol. LIII, No. 8, Oct/Nov 2008
- The Court Of Appeal Holds That Employers Are Required To Provide Meal And Rest Periods To Their Employees, But Are Not Required To Ensure Them
- SCBA Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, Vol. 15, Issue 76, September 2008
- LAFCo Initiated Dissolutions Rare
- California Special District, Vol. 3, Issue 4, July-Aug 2008
- Tales from the Front Line: The Rosenthal FDCPA - 2007 in Review
Collector's Ink, Vol. XLXIII, No. 4, April 2008
- Providing Services Outside Special District Jurisdictional Boundaries
- California Special District, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2008
- Construction Attorneys, Risks, and Disputes: An Owner's Guide (PDF 758kB)
- Inside the Minds: Construction Law Litigation Strategies, 2007
- Supreme Court Clarifies Rules Governing CEQA Review of Water Supplies for Real Estate Development (PDF 90kB)
- California Real Property Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007
- Preaching from the State's Podium: What Speech is Proselytizing Prohibited by the Establishment Clause? (PDF 156kB)
- BYU Journal of Public Law, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Fall 2006)
- Religious Practices In The Workplace - Legal or Not?
- Sacramento Lawyer, September/October 2006
- Damages Determined for Giving Farmers' Water to Fish (PDF 97kB)
- California Real Property Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2004
- Claims Court Rules that Giving Farmers' Water to Fish Requires Just Compensation (PDF 60kB)
- California Real Property Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3/4, 2002
