Known as the City of Trees, Sacramento is home to bike trails, walking paths, and riverfront property. While these facets usually coexist peacefully, there has been tension recently with the push for property around the Pocket/Greenhaven area to be used to connect the scattered portions of the Sacramento Bike Trail. Some bikers, hikers, and dog…
Beginning on October 10, 2019, PG&E initiated planned power outages for over one million Northern California residents. These outages lasted anywhere from a few hours to multiple days. Residents flooded grocery stores, gas stations, and Home Depot to stock up on necessities for the largest electrical hiatus in California’s history. Many complained about PG&E’s lack…
If PG&E and other utility providers want to abolish or change inverse condemnation liability, the legislature must rescind the power of eminent domain it has delegated to these utility providers. They cannot have one without the other. An inverse condemnation action is merely an eminent domain action initiated by a property owner rather than the…
On Tuesday, we reported that on Friday January 24, 2014 Governor Brown’s administration requested that the California Supreme Court decide whether two adverse rulings by Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny were correct- rulings that could impact the condemnation proceedings required by the High Speed Rail project. Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the matter…
On March 18, 2013, the High Speed Rail Authority (“Authority”) asked its Finance Committee to authorize the issuance of more than $8 billion in bonds – in part to take private property for the project. The Finance Committee obliged stating it was “necessary and desirable” to do so. The Authority then filed an action in…
