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Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion v. City of Los Angeles

Filing Date: 2013
Case Categories:
  • State Law Claims
    • State Impact Assessment Laws
Principal Laws:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Description: Challenge to environmental review of airport redevelopment projects.
  • Alliance for Regional Solution to Airport Congestion v. City of Los Angeles
    Docket number(s): 56-2014-00451038
    Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    08/26/2016 Not Available Download Memorandum of understanding approved by city council and mayor.
    08/05/2016 Settlement Agreement Download Tentative memorandum of understanding agreed to by Alliance for a Regional Solution for Airport Congestion and City of Los Angeles.
    04/08/2016 Order Download Order issued directing that judgment be entered in favor of Los Angeles.
  • Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion v. City of Los Angeles
    Docket number(s): BS143086
    Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    08/24/2016 Settlement Agreement Memorandum of understanding approved by city council. Los Angeles Settled CEQA Lawsuit Over Airport Expansion. On August 24, 2016, the Los Angeles City Council approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the City and the Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion (ARSEC) that resolved a lawsuit ARSEC brought in 2013 under the California Environmental Quality Act to challenge a major redevelopment and expansion of the Los Angeles International Airport. ARSEC’s arguments had included a claim that an alternative with lower greenhouse gas emissions should have been chosen. The MOU provided that the City would not proceed with a key feature of the selected alternative, the relocation of a runway to be 260 feet closer to residential neighborhoods.
    05/30/2013 Petition for Writ of Mandate Download Petition for writ of mandate filed. Along with City of Inglewood v. City of Los Angeles and SEIU United Service Workers West v. City of Los Angeles, this lawsuit asserted challenges under the California Environmental Quality Act to the approval of a $4.5-billion set of redevelopment and expansion projects at the Los Angeles International Airport. Among other alleged shortcomings in the environmental review, two of the lawsuits charged that respondents failed to adequately analyze and mitigate the project’s impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and/or that respondents should have approved an alternative that would have resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions.
  • City of Inglewood v. City of Los Angeles
    Docket number(s): BS143328
    Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    05/30/2013 Petition for Writ of Mandate Download Petition for writ of mandate filed. Along with City of Inglewood v. City of Los Angeles and SEIU United Service Workers West v. City of Los Angeles, this lawsuit asserted challenges under the California Environmental Quality Act to the approval of a $4.5-billion set of redevelopment and expansion projects at the Los Angeles International Airport. Among other alleged shortcomings in the environmental review, two of the lawsuits charged that respondents failed to adequately analyze and mitigate the project’s impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and/or that respondents should have approved an alternative that would have resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions.
  • SEIU United Service Workers West v. City of Los Angeles
    Docket number(s): n/a
    Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    05/30/2013 Petition for Writ of Mandate Download Petition for writ of mandate filed. Along with City of Inglewood v. City of Los Angeles and Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion v. City of Los Angeles, this lawsuit asserted challenges under the California Environmental Quality Act to the approval of a $4.5-billion set of redevelopment and expansion projects at the Los Angeles International Airport. Among other alleged shortcomings in the environmental review, two of the lawsuits charged that respondents failed to adequately analyze and mitigate the project’s impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and/or that respondents should have approved an alternative that would have resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions.

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