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Yesterday, the California Supreme Court denied without opinion our petition for review in Building Industry Association -- Bay Area v. City of San Ramon (a mere two days after we filed our reply brief!). The case challenged San Ramon's new Mello-Roos special tax and levying ordinance under the Act as well as the federal and state constitutions. Alt ...

Yesterday we filed our opening brief on appeal in Building Industry Association -- Bay Area v. San Ramon.  The case, pending in the California court of appeal in San Francisco, concerns a challenge to a property tax levied by a City of San Ramon community facilities district.  Our appeal contends that the tax is illegal, for three reasons.  First, ...

Tomorrow morning I will be arguing in Contra Costa Superior Court against an illegal tax levied against new homeowners by the City of San Ramon, California. San Ramon used California's Mello-Roos Act, the purpose of which is to fund new public facilities and new public services, to impose a parcel tax of more than $500 on select homeowners (above a ...