Representing public entities has been always been one of GMSR’s core practice areas. As a result, GMSR’s appellate lawyers have extensive experience in handling appeals that follow administrative decisions, as well as in disposing of suits brought by plaintiffs who failed to follow the available administrative procedures. GMSR has also been on the other side of the table, successfully representing private entities challenging administrative decisions in the Court of Appeal.
The Town of Apple Valley initiated condemnation proceedings to acquire a local water utility. The Town issued all statutorily-required resolutions of necessity, compiling a massive administrative record. After a lengthy bench trial where the parties fought over the proper standard of review, the trial court
GMSR obtains reversal for the Town of Apple Valley in water system takings case
Ninth Circuit reverses removal order against GMSR client, ruling that immigration judges must consider positive factors when assessing a non-citizen’s entitlement to voluntary departure
Victor Luis Angeles Zamorano followed his parents into the United States as a child and has lived in this country for the twenty years since. At his removal proceeding, he requested voluntary departure, which would have allowed him to make arrangements to leave the country
Court of Appeal revives GMSR’s clients’ $200 million claims
A group of New York investment companies turned to GMSR when a California trial court—citing agreements and injunctions in a prior insurance company liquidation—barred most of their $200 million New York lawsuit from proceeding. Facing off against both the California Insurance Commissioner and the New
Court of Appeal finds physician failed to exhaust administrative remedies in medical peer review matter
A physician brought administrative mandamus proceedings seeking to overturn a medical peer review determination that upheld the summary suspension of his medical staff privileges. His mandamus arguments, however, challenged a different decision than what the parties had agreed the peer review hearing committee would decide—the
Parks Legal Defense Fund v. City of Huntington Beach (2010) 2010 Cal.App.Unpub. LEXIS 9862 (California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three) [unpublished]. The City of Huntington Beach, GMSR’s client, planned to construct a state-of-the-art senior center in one of its parks. The trial
A labor union filed a grievance against GMSR’s client and the client invoked its right under the collective bargaining agreement to have the grievance heard by a neutral arbitrator. The union asserted that the grievance instead had to be submitted to an administrative committee consisting
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