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Kerry Shapiro

Environmental, Government, Land Use and Natural Resources & Mining Mining lawyer: California’s SB 108 enacts new legislation pertaining to "idle" mines and addresses some of the problems existing in SMARA’s idle mine provisions, including interim management plans

Mining lawyer: California’s SB 108 enacts new legislation pertaining to “idle” mines and addresses some of the problems existing in SMARA’s idle mine provisions, including interim management plans Kerry Shapiro’s paper on California SB 108, which changes provisions in the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 (SMARA) pertaining to “idle” mines, was first presented […]

Land Use and Natural Resources & Mining JMBM Development Rights: JMBM Lawyer Wins Attorneys’ Fees for Client in CEQA Lawsuit Defense

On November 14, 2008, federal court Judge A. Howard Matz of the United States District Court, Central District of California, awarded JMBM’s client, CEMEX, the full amount of attorneys’ fees requested for its defense of a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit. The attorneys’ fees were incurred in the last round of litigation involving actions […]