Crescent City, CA
Business Lawyer at Crescent City, CA
Practice Areas: Business, Government ... +6 more
OUTCOME: CSD dissolved and election set aside
A county created a CSD and purported to use LAFCO's reorganization powers to take over the utility of a city. A countywide election passed the initative but the measure failed in the city. The appellat ... e court overturned the election as a fraud holding that only the majority vote of city residents could authorize the transfer of their utility.
OUTCOME: Seminal case on indian jurisdictional law
A criminal law prohibiting the sale of fish taken by means of gill net from a river flowing through the Yurok Indian Reservation was held preempted by federal regulation. The CA Supreme Court held that ... fishing rights were reserved to the Tribe when the reservation was created and the federal regulatory scheme was so extensive that concurrent jurisdiction with the state did not exist.
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