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Environmental

Aug. 6, 2011

The eternal question: paper or plastic?

Ruling on Manhattan Beach's plastic bag ban may offer more confusion than resolution. By Mike Durkee and Tom Tunny of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP


By Mike Durkee and Tom Tunny


Last month the state Supreme Court resolved one of the more provocative CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) cases presented in recent years (Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. City of Manhattan Beach, 2011 DJDAR 10645 (July 14, 2011). The Court answered two questions in its ruling: a corporate entity is not subject to a heightened standard in determining whether it has "standing" to bring a lawsuit under CEQA; ...

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