The California Court of Appeal in Southern California recently prevented the California Coastal Commission from once again imposing draconian permit conditions in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which provides that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. The case is Bay Island Club v. California… Read more »
A government official shows up at your door step with concerns of building code violations. Are you required to let the official onto your private property for an inspection? The property rights lawyers at Kassouni Law weigh-in: Many counties and cities in California are taking an increasingly aggressive approach to inspections of property for alleged… Read more »
Kassouni Law represents Lockaway Storage, a Bay Area storage facility company which has been at odds with the County of Alameda for almost ten years over its conditional use permit (Lockaway Storage v. County of Alameda). In 2000 Lockaway bought a parcel of land which had a preexisting conditional use permit for the construction and… Read more »
