Environmental & Energy
Apr. 14, 2020
Panel overturns decisions that infringed on Legislature’s water policy authority
The cases concern the Legislature’s passage of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, which created the Delta Stewardship Council.
A state appellate court overturned half a dozen lower court decisions on grounds they infringed on the Legislature's right to set water policy.
Friday's order came in the form of a unanimous, 90-page unpublished decision from the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Delta Stewardship Council Cases, C082944 & C086199 (3rd DCA, filed Aug. 23, 2016).
The cases concern the Legislature's passage of t...
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