Court Issues Favorable Decision for Sheppard Mullin Client, Diablo Grande.Business Editors/Legal Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2004 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol is proud to announce its trial team headed by Robert Uram, partner in the Firm's Real Estate/Land Use Practice Group, obtained a favorable decision on behalf of client Diablo Grande LP in Protect Our Water v. Flowers. Uram was assisted by attorneys Keith Garner Rev. Keith Vincent Garner MTh (b. 4 January 1955) is Superintendent and Chief Executive Officer of Wesley Mission, Sydney, Australia, which grew out of the early Methodist Church in Sydney in 1812 and the later Sydney Methodist Central Mission in 1884. , Ella Foley-Gannon and Robert Stumpf. U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb of the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division, ruled in favor of the defendant on all issues. Shubb's decision lets stand a June 2001 permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Diablo Grande. Plaintiffs had sought both preliminary and permanent relief alleging that the U.S. Army Corps had issued Diablo Grande a section 404 permit in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) (16 U.S.C.A. §§ 1531 et seq.) was enacted to protect animal and plant species from extinction by preserving the ecosystems in which they survive and by providing programs for their conservation. . The project conditions include placing conservation easements EASEMENTS, estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit; it may arise by deed or prescription. Vide 1 Serg. & Rawle 298; 5 Barn. & Cr. 221; 3 Barn. & Cr. 339; 3 Bing. R. 118; 3 McCord, R. on nearly 2600 acres of land. Russ Newman, Diablo Grande's general counsel, commented, "The case was critical to Diablo Grande. We expended over $160 million to develop the community and an adverse decision could have halted the construction of hundreds of planned homes and caused the loss of several hundred jobs. We are obviously pleased that our position has been completely vindicated." About Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Sheppard Mullin is a national law firm with more than 400 attorneys and eight offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, San Diego, Santa Barbara, West Los Angeles
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