A San Diego County water district should have completed an environmental study before approving an agreement to provide recycled water to operators of a proposed landfill, the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled.

Even though Olivenhain Municipal Water District was not the "lead agency" for review of the landfill itself, the district was a "responsible agency" with obligations under the California Environmental Quality Act. The district did not fulfill those obligations with a contract that placed CEQA compliance in the hands of the landfill operator, the court ruled.

An appellate court has declined to allow additional compensation in an eminent domain case to San Francisco landowners who argued that they should be made whole for the expected revenue on an approved but unbuilt mixed-use project on their land.