RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS

December 2004

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Code of Civil Procedure § 473(b) Fails to Relieve Water Agency’s Failure, Through Its Attorney’s “Inexcusable Neglect,” to Timely Request a CEQA Hearing
Nacimiento Regional Water Management Advisory Committee v. Monterey County Water Resources Agency, ___Cal.App.4th___

The First District Court of Appeal denied petitioner’s request for relief under Code of Civil Procedure § 473, subdivision (b), after petitioner failed to request a hearing on the merits as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) because the inaction was caused by legal counsel’s inexcusable neglect.