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Environmental

May 2, 2012

Judicial Council comes out against fast-track CEQA legislation

As efforts to expedite litigation over major development projects begin to take shape, opposition is growing not only from environmentalists, but from the judiciary itself.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


As efforts to expedite litigation over major development projects begin to take shape, opposition is growing, not only from environmentalists but from the judiciary itself.


The fight centers on a bill passed last year that requires challenges to certain projects under the California Environmental Quality Act to go straight to the appellate court. The Planning and Conservation League has sued over the l...

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