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Environmental

Sep. 4, 2015

Justices grill lawyers on development

While closely questioning both sides, the justices did not tip their hands on how they would rule on the massive Newhall Ranch development, or on the larger issue of how projects should analyze their climate change impacts.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - With the future of one of the state's largest-ever proposed developments
hanging in the balance, the California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether
it should reject the environmental approval of a new city planned for Los Angeles
County.


The justices posed questions to both sides, puzzli...

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