Project proponents may avoid CEQA altogether by gathering sufficient voter signatures and then having the local City Council approve the proposed project, without submitting the measure to a vote of the people.

Eminent domain presupposes that the government desires to acquire a property interest for a public project. The public project can be a road or a school or something far more exotic (think acquisition of an NFL team, as in City of Oakland v. Oakland Raiders, 646 P.2d 835 (Cal. 1982), or acquisition ...

The latest municipal attempt to seize underwater mortgages by eminent domain is an abuse of this most awesome governmental power.The plan is being pushed by San Francisco-based Mortgage Resolution Partners, which recently entered into an agreement with the city of Richmond, Calif. And the city has ...

Eighty-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Best Lawyers named five Manatt attorneys “Lawyer of the Year” for 2024 – Marty Murphy in Boston; Edward Burg, Timi Anyon Hallem and George Kieffer in Los Angeles; and Susan Hori in Orange County. 

Eighty-two Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Eleven Manatt attorneys were recognized on Pasadena Magazine’s 2023 Top Attorneys guide, which honors local lawyers who have been recognized by their peers as the best of the best. 

Litigation Partner Edward Burg will speak in a video webcast titled “Private Utility Takeovers: Lessons From a 67 Day Trial” at the Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation 2023 conference hosted by the American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education virtually and in-person in Austin, Texas, ...