09/10/2015
Dolores Bastian Dalton will be speaking on working with insurance issues in mediation on September 10, 2015, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Half-Day Conference in Sacramento presented by the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. For more information about Ms....
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 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...
Jun 26, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a local housing policy that has a “disparate impact” on minorities is actionable under the federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), even if the impact was unintentional. In Texas Department of Housing v. the Inclusive Communities...