Firm Victory Clarifies Eminent Domain Rules
Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger won a significant victory for longtime client Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA) when the Third District Court of Appeal upheld a favorable eminent domain jury verdict in Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency v. Dhaliwal (2015) 236 Cal.App.4th 1315. The case was tried by the firm’s veteran trial attorney, Andrew Schwartz, and defended […]
Practical Tips for Updating Sign Ordinances Post-Reed v. Town of Gilbert
The dust is still settling from the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, AZ, 135 S.Ct. 2218 (2015), a case challenging the Town of Gilbert’s sign ordinance as a content based and unconstitutional regulation of speech. The Court sided with the challengers, a small church and its pastor, who had faced numerous regulatory […]