Sep 16, 2015
It is with a mixture of sadness and delight (sadness for us, delight for her) that we announce the departure of our friend and colleague Juliet Cox from the firm. Juliet has accepted a position as an Administrative Law Judge with the California Office of...
Sep 3, 2015
In Walker v. City of San Clemente, a California court of appeal upheld a judgment against San Clemente requiring it to refund more than $10 million in unspent mitigation fees to homeowners because the City failed to follow the precise requirements contained in the...
Aug 13, 2015
Goldfarb and Lipman successfully represented two San Francisco affordable housing nonprofit corporations and the seven individual members of the Boards of Directors of the nonprofits in defense of a takeover attempt by a San Francisco church. The San Francisco...
Aug 11, 2015
HUD released its final rule last month for the implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provisions. Click here to read more.
Aug 7, 2015
In City of San Diego v. Board of Trustees of the California State University (San Diego v. CSU), the California Supreme Court rejected CSU’s contention that the University could not pay off-site environmental mitigation costs unless the Legislature specifically...
Jul 1, 2015
In Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court held that disparate impact claims are a valid basis for lawsuits under the Federal Fair Housing Act (the “FHA”). Click here for more...
