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Alliance for California Business v. California Air Resources Board

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, No. C082828 · judgment May 29, 2018


Certiorari denied · January 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether, under a provision of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), the inclusion of a state regulation in an EPA-approved State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) deprives state courts of their presumptive sovereign jurisdiction to determine whether the regulation is inconsistent with state law, where (a) 42 U.S.C. §7607(b)(1) does not unambiguously withdraw jurisdiction from state courts and (b) depriving state courts of their jurisdiction to determine whether a state regulation is inconsistent with state law would make the regulation effectively immune to facial state law challenges?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Karl Olson
Cannata, O'Toole, Fickes & Olson LLP

For respondent
Russell B. Hildreth
California Department of Justice, Office of the At

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Related
Vide, 18-629

Proceedings

  1. Jan 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 05 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
  3. Nov 26 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent California Air Resources Board to respond filed.
  4. Nov 13 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 21, 2018)