Waste Management v. County of Alameda

Bruen & Gordon, Scott W. Gordon and David J. Miller, Walnut Creek, for Real Party in Interest and Appellant.

Landels, Ripley & Diamond, Michael H. Zischke, Sanford Svetcov and James H. Colopy, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Law Office of J. William Yeates, J. William Yeates, Sacramento, and Heather Tattershall, for Planning and Conservation League as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

SCOTLAND, P.J.

At the request of plaintiff Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. (Waste Management), the trial court entered a judgment styled a peremptory writ of mandate. The judgment contained the following directives: (1) defendants California Integrated Waste Management Board (the Waste Board) and County of Alameda (the County) were ordered to set aside their approvals of a solid waste facility permit issued to real party in interest Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (Browning-Ferris), to the extent the approvals authorized the receipt or disposal of "designated waste" within the meaning of regulations of the State Water Resources Control Board (the State Water Board); (2) the Waste Board and the County were ordered to refrain from approving a…