Emergency seawall gets permanent status

ENCINITAS — The Planning Commission unanimously approved a major use permit on Jan. 5 that allows a seawall built under emergency conditions to become permanent despite objections by shoreline preservation groups.

Tagged Coastal Act, coastal armoring, Encinitas, sea level rise, seawall

Press release: PRJCT Action Sports Design Studio

Managing Partner Marco Gonzalez, in addition to his work with Coast Law Group LLP, recently launched an action sports creative, design, and business consulting service.

Tagged Action Sports, corporation formation, design studio, marketing, overseas manufacturing, small business, startup, strategic creative

Debate over seawalls heats up

LEUCADIA, Calif. — A growing number of environmentalists are fighting beachfront homeowners who want to build seawalls to prevent their property from washing out to sea.

Marco Gonzalez, with the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, and others believe seawalls, retaining walls and other manmade barriers built to stop the natural process of land erosion are actually harmful.

Tagged climate change, coastal armoring, managed retreat, planned retreat, sand replenishment, sea level rise, seawalls

Fireworks subject of a fourth lawsuit

Questions about the environmental impacts of fireworks in the San Diego region are likely to remain a source of controversy for years. — James Gregg

December 19, 2011
San Diego Union Tribune
by Mike Lee

The Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation has lobbed another lawsuit against San Diego in the ongoing debate over regulatory oversight of fireworks — and it doesn’t appear that the disagreements will end any time soon.

Tagged California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, Environmental impacts, Fireworks

Lawsuit Filed Over Stolen “Boobies” Logo

San Diego Reader
December 20, 2011
By Dave Rice

Carlsbad-based Keep A Breast Foundation, a local award winning non-profit, filed a lawsuit today in federal court alleging trademark infringement on its popular “I (heart) Boobies!” logo.

Group Files 4th Lawsuit Over Permits For Fireworks Events In San Diego

December 16, 2011
KPBS.org
by Ed Joyce

Encinitas-based Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation (CERF) filed a lawsuit Friday against the City of San Diego over the city’s permitting process for special events, including fireworks events.

CARLSBAD: Keep A Breast celebrates $250K settlement

CARLSBAD —- Keep A Breast Foundation said it has reached a $250,000 settlement with a company it accused of selling products that infringed on the foundation’s “I Love Boobies” slogan.

Tagged Breast Cancer Awareness, Infringement, Intellectual Property, Settlement, Trademark

Lawsuit Challenges San Diego Governments’ Flawed Transportation Plan

Note: Coast Law Group, LLP, is local counsel for Cleveland National Forest Foundation (CNFF). Partner Marco Gonzalez has represented CNFF on various land use and transportation planning issues for more than a decade.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28, 2011

CONTACT: Severn Williams, (510) 336-9566, sev@publicgoodpr.com

Lawsuit Challenges San Diego Governments’ Flawed Transportation Plan

Sprawl-oriented Plan Would Increase Pollution, Worsen Climate Change, Ignore Need for Public Transit

San Diego, Calif. – The Cleveland National Forest Foundation and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today in the San Diego Superior Court against the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
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EXCLUSIVE: Before Oceanside sex abuse, teacher investigated in Escondido

Corey Hogue, a former high school teacher and coach convicted of sexually abusing one of his students at Oceanside High School, was accused a year earlier of having sex with one of his female basketball players at Orange Glen High School in Escondido, according to confidential school district documents obtained by the North County Times.

CERF Fireworks Fee Motion Ruling Delayed

San Diego, CA – The Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation (CERF), in highly publicized litigation involving the City of San Diego’s compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), today sought an award of attorneys’ fees for the successful prosecution of its case as decided by the Court on May 26, 2011.

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