Via Press Release: SANTA MONICA, Calif. – In a judgment handed down on June 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a challenge to an historic Consent Decree that allowed Santa Monica to shorten the runway…
Via city of Santa Monica press release. The United States District Court, Central District of California has dismissed in its entirety a case challenging the Consent Decree between the City of Santa Monica and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the…
After a brief delay, plans to shorten the runway at Santa Monica Airport will move forward, according to city officials. A letter by Santa Monica Airport Director Stelios Makrides sent to media Tuesday confirmed that a temporary court order preventing…
A Republican congressmember from Louisiana is not happy with the deal struck between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the city of Santa Monica that would allow the municipality to close Santa Monica airport at the end of 2028. In…
Via city of Santa Monica press release. Get ready for the 11th Annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk on Saturday, March 18 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. The ArtWalk offers a fun-filled day of artistic exploration, including 60 artist studios…
Via the city of Santa Monica. At its meeting on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, the Santa Monica City Council approved a contract to begin the design phase of work to shorten the runway at Santa Monica Airport to 3,500 feet.…
Via The Healthy City Local “Belts and suspenders.” That’s a phrase that we lawyers use to describe how we write contracts and other documents repeating the same concepts multiple times. (“Repeating” and “multiple times”—you see, belts and suspenders.) Sometimes the belts…
Via the City of Santa Monica On Wednesday, February 1, Judge John F. Walter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, approved the Consent Decree between the City Santa Monica City and the United States…
Via the City of Santa Monica The City of Santa Monica entered into a standstill agreement with JetSuiteX Wednesday to suspend its commercial flight operations scheduled to begin February 6 from Santa Monica Airport. This agreement was reached in light of…
Via The Healthy City Local Procrastination can pay. For the past two weeks the top item on my to-do list has read, “Blog on SMO—read dox.” “Dox,” meaning the pleadings and briefs that have been piling up in multiple pending…
See Updated Story Via the City of Santa Monica. On Saturday, January 28, 2017, Santa Monica City Council announced an agreement with the U.S. federal government on the closure of Santa Monica Airport. The agreement ends a longstanding legal battle…
Activists opposed to the Santa Monica Airport will hold a rally on Saturday, February 4 to protest JetSuiteX’s plans for running commercial flights out the nearly century-old airfield. The protest will take place in the parking lot of the Ocean Park…
The following story is a press release from the city : City Files Unlawful Detainer Lawsuits Against Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers SANTA MONICA, Calif. — This morning, the City of Santa Monica filed Unlawful Detainer (UDs) actions in Superior…
This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. A few weeks ago U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Karen Bass organized a meeting in Washington where Santa Monica officials and local residents could express their grievances about Santa Monica Airport to…
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. Time, tide and vacation wait for no man, and as it happened I was traveling the past two weeks when there was big news about…
