Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard, A Law Corporation

Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard was established in 1959 with a focus on water and water-related resource law. Founders Stanley Kronick and Adolph Moskovitz first met in 1950 as staff attorneys for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, where they formulated a water allocation plan that reversed California's water policy and became the basis for the water and hydroelectric projects implemented by Governor Edmund G. Brown. The complexity of legal and governance issues related to water quickly led KMTG into other areas of public agency law, intensifying the firm's experience throughout the complicated network of regulatory agencies and at every level of the state and federal court systems, including the United States Supreme Court. As the firm's expertise expanded, the diversity of its client base grew. Today, KMTG attorneys collectively represent school and community college districts, water districts, cities, counties, local and state government agencies, special districts, joint powers authorities and joint powers insurance authorities, landowners, wineries, private individuals, small to mid-sized businesses and publicly traded companies.

Due Process Did Not Require City to Provide Notice Each Time It Towed Illegally Parked Trailers Owned By Chronic Offender of Parking Ordinance
Mona Ebrahimi, December 3, 2009
In Lone Star Security & Video, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, (--- F.3d ----, C.A.9 (Cal.), October 21, 2009), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered whether a city violated the due process rights of a corporation when it towed some of the corporation’s trailers...

A Change Of Physical Conditions May Cause A Public Entity To Lose Its Design Immunity, But The Public Entity Retains Its Design Immunity If It Approves A Design That Contemplates The Possibility Of A Specific Change Of Condition
Mona Ebrahimi, Amara Harrell, Karina K. Terakura, December 3, 2009
A California Court of Appeal recently considered whether a public entity that approved a design for a project, which design contemplated the possibility of a specific change of condition retained its design immunity when such condition occurred. The Court of Appeal held the public entity retained...

HUD "Good Cause" Regulation Allowing Landlord To Evict Section 8 Tenants To Raise Apartment Rent Does Not Preempt City Eviction Control Ordinance Which Prohibits Evicting Tenants To Raise Rents
Jon E. Goetz, December 3, 2009
In Barrientos v. 1801-1825 Morton LLC, (--- F.3d ----, C.A.9 (Cal.), October 09, 2009), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court ruling in favor of a group of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) Section 8 tenants who were evicted in order for the...