California Supreme Court
Dec. 19, 2015
State Supreme Court sets limits on the reach of CEQA in unanimous ruling
The high court ruled that in most cases, the law should analyze a project's impact on the environmnet and not how the environment can impact a project or its users.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday set limits on the reach of the California Environmental Quality Act, ruling in a closely watched case that - in most instances - the law should analyze a project's impact on the environment and not how the environment can affect a project or its users.
In a unanimous decision, the court held that the 1970 law referred to as CEQA was intended to look at, for ex...
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