For Vulcan Chemical Co., in a multi-party CERCLA cost recovery case regarding an aluminum smelter in Southern California’s Inland Empire, JMBM successfully resolved the case after a successful CERCLA summary motion involving an aluminum smelter in the Inland Empire. The summary motion was followed by favorable resolution of cost recovery litigation.
JMBM attorneys successfully won a breach of contract action against the City of Thousand Oaks for breach of a Development Agreement.
JMBM has successfully processed and appealed more than 100 applications to the California Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund; JMBM clients have obtained more than $30 million from this public program.
The Firm successfully represented an aggregate mining operator secure federal and local permits for the largest federally-contracted construction aggregate project in the United States.
JMBM attorneys defended a scrap metal recycling enterprise in administrative hearings concerning water quality, storm water and waste discharge issues before the Regional Water Quality Control Board and the subsequent appeal before the State Water Resources Control Board.
In a case brought before the New Motor Vehicle Board in Sacramento, JMBM partners successfully defeated a dealer’s protest against the proposed establishment of a new Volkswagen dealership by the firm’s client Volkswagen of America, approximately 5 miles from the protesting dealership. JMBM then defeated the dealer’s appeal of the Board’s decision, thus winning the […]
JMBM successfully completed an arbitration between national clothing and accessories brands Cherokee Inc. and Mossimo, Inc. in a case concerning monies owed to Cherokee as a result of Mossimo entering into a finder’s fee agreement with Cherokee. JMBM’s Intellectual Property group lawyers negotiated the original finder’s fee agreement for Cherokee. It was this agreement that […]
JMBM’s Government, Land Use, Environmental and Energy Group represented the Clarett Group and Prudential Real Estate in obtaining development entitlement approvals for a major mixed-use development to exceed one million square feet on Hollywood Boulevard adjoining the Pantages Theatre. The project includes 1,042 apartment units and 175,000 square feet of retail.
JMBM served as legal counsel to Intravenous Therapy Services in the $13 million sale of the company to BioScrip Inc. The Burbank, Calif.-based home infusion pharmaceutical provider will operate under publicly held BioScrip’s infusion division, but will continue to be run by its current president and CEO.
The Firm represented a construction materials company in defense of a state-court challenge to mining rights for the largest sand and gravel deposit in North America.