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Representative
Clients:
Cities & Public Entities
 City of American Canyon
The Firm has served as the City Attorney for the general law City
of American Canyon in Napa County since its incorporation on December
31, 1992.
City of Burbank
The Firm represented the City of Burbank in an action against
the State of California for the recovery of monies paid for certain
State-mandated costs. The matter was settled in December 1989 with
the payment of the above plus applicable interest.
City of El Monte
The Firm represented the City of El Monte before the Regional
Water Quality Control Board in a rule-making proceeding to enact
a regulation concerning the operation of inert landfills in areas
designated as a Superfund site the San Gabriel Valley Groundwater
Basin, and in litigation, including the sufficiency of environmental
review accomplished by the City of Arcadia with respect to the
closure of the same inert landfill.
The Firm also represented the City of El Monte with respect to
its challenge of the approval by the City of Arcadia in 1994 of
a conditional use permit and Reclamation Plan and certification
of an EIR for an inert landfill in an approximate 40 acre lake
within the watercourse of the San Gabriel River. The Firm prevailed
at the Trial Court for the City of El Monte which was reversed
on appeal. City of El Monte v. City of Arcadia, 2 Civ.No. BO95346.
City of Malibu
In 1985 and 1996, the Firm was retained by a series of homeowners
in the City of Malibu to challenge the approval by the City of
a Conditional Use Permit authorizing a yacht club on unimproved
real property along Pacific Coast Highway. The litigation, Kimberly
Young-Silver, et al. v. City of Malibu, et al, Los Angeles Superior
Court, Case No. BS 031886 was successful; judgment was entered
in favor of the Petitioner and Plaintiff homeowners and against
the City.
City of Monterey Park
In
1982, Mr. Ross was retained by the City of Monterey Park to perform
an
analysis of the landfill operated by Operating Industries,
Inc. ("OII") as to whether OII’s operation could
be terminated by revocation of its then existing conditional use
permit and whether such an action constituted a project under CEQA
requiring environmental analysis.
City of Pasadena
The Firm was retained in 1986 by the City of Pasadena to assist
in the formation of a Joint Powers Authority to environmentally
assess and eventually fund renovation of the Devil's Gate Dam in
the Arroyo Seco for recreational, water storage, flood control
and wildlife purposes.
Fire
Agencies Insurance Risk Authority
The Firm, beginning in 1988, advised and assisted eleven (11) special
districts to form a Joint Powers Authority for general liability
insurance. The Firm advised and represented the Authority, now
comprised of over one hundred and twenty-eight (128) special districts
in California and Nevada, until 2001.
Long Beach Unified School District
The Firm served as co-counsel for the Long Beach Unified School
District in a continuing claim for reimbursement for State-mandated
costs from the State of California for voluntary desegregation
which resulted in a published opinion in school district's favor,
Long Beach Unified School Dist. v. State of California, 225 Cal.App.3d
155, 275 Cal.Rptr. 449 (1990). The matter concluded with a total
payment to the School District of $128,000,000.
University
of California-Irvine
The Firm represents University of California-Irvine with respect
to compliance with CEQA and preparation, review and analysis of
environmental documentation pertaining to the UC Irvine North Campus
Mixed Use Development.
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