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Environmental & Energy

Jul. 25, 2008

Keeping Up Appearances

The State Water Board’s position to allow its attorneys to perform overlapping functions is out of step with the developing standards of due process and at odds with its own practices, write Jeffrey Dintzer and Tony Brown. - Forum Column

Jeffrey Dintzer

Partner, Alston & Bird LLP

333 S Hope St Ste 1600
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Phone: (213) 576-1063

Email: jeffrey.dintzer@alston.com

Boston University SOL; Boston MA

During over 30 years representing clients in complex environmental, toxic tort, and land use litigation, class actions, and administrative proceedings, he has been involved in precedent-setting cases affecting the way industries such as oil & gas do business in California.

FORUM COLUMN

By Jeffrey Dintzer and Tony Brown
This article appears on Page 6

      The California Supreme Court will soon be deciding in Morongo Band of Mission Indians v. State Water Resources Control Board, S155589, whether due process requires unitary administrative agencies - those that function as both accuser and adjudicator on matters within their jurisdiction - to ensure that their staff attorneys serve only ...

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