SMW Becomes General Counsel to the Alameda County Waste Management Authority
In 1982 the firm is retained as General Counsel to the Alameda County Waste Management Authority, an agency devoted to sustainability and waste reduction.
Protection of Open Space
The firm successfully defends Tiburon in a landmark, unanimous takings case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the Town’s open space ordinance. The Supreme Court requires courts to defer to local agencies’ regulation of land use. (Agins v. Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255 (1980).)