Marc Bruner

In Baker v. Bay Area Toll Authority, No. A174642 (1st Dist, June 5, 2026), the court affirmed the dismissal of a CEQA challenge against the Bay Area Toll Authority’s approval of the Bay Lights 360 project, an LED light art...more A catch-all provision in the County’s encroachment permit checklist requiring “[o]ther information as may be required” violated the Permit Streamlining Act because it failed to specify required information with sufficient...more California recently enacted Assembly Bill 1319, which provides increased state law protections for federally listed species that may be affected by rollbacks in the protections afforded under federal law. ...more Key Takeaways - There has been substantial back-and-forth and uncertainty in recent years over whether the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits only the intentional take of covered birds, or whether it also protects...more