James R. Arnold
Principal
Email: JArnold@ArnoldLP.com

Practice Areas: Environmental Law; Brownfields Redevelopment; Underground Storage Tanks; Air Quality; Air Pollution; Clean Air Act; Water Quality; Water Pollution; Clean Water Act; Groundwater Contamination; Environmental Insurance; Real Estate Litigation; Quiet Title; Real Estate Sales; Eminent Domain; Inverse Condemnation; Public Land Law; Land Use Litigation; Environmental Cleanup; Environmental Cost Recovery; Zoning Law; Federal Civil Litigation; Coatings Technology; Wetlands Protection; UST Fund; Metal Finishing; Wastewater Permits; Environmental Mediation; Industrial Permits; Dry Cleaner Clean Ups.

Admitted: 1973, California; U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California; U.S Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1976, U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Law School: Hastings College of the Law, University of California, J.D., 1971

College: Claremont McKenna College, B.A., 1968, Baker Scholar

Member: Bar Association of San Francisco (Member, Environmental Law Section; Executive Committee 1988-); American Bar Association (Member, 1973-; Secretary, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, 2005-2007).

Biography: Author: (Representative Publications) Chapter 72, "Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Land Use," in the treatise, California Environmental Law and Land Use Practice, Lexis 2008; "Brownfields Redevelopment for the "Small Site," Bar Association of San Francisco (Sept. 2000); USDOJ Trial Attorney/AUSA Los Angeles, California, 1974-1987. President, East Bay Services to the Developmentally Disabled, Inc., Concord, California. Member: Community Advisory Panel, Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery, Martinez, California.

Reported Cases: (Representative cases) American Motorcyclist Ass'n v. Watt, 534 F. Supp. 923 (C.D. Calif. 1981), 543 F.Supp.789 (C.D. Calif. 1982) (NEPA, FLPMA); United States v. Stringfellow, 783 F.2d 821 (9th Cir. 1986)(CERCLA); Cortese v. United States, 782 F.2d 845 (9th Cir. 1986) (Quiet Title); Jones-Hamilton Co. v. Kop-Coat, Inc. 750 F. Supp. 1022 (N.D., Calif. 1990) (CERCLA/RCRA); Australians for Animals v. Evans, 301 F. Supp. 2nd 1114 (N.D. Calif. 2004) (NEPA, MMPA).

Special Agencies: UST Fund, Division of Clean Water Programs, California State Water Resources Control Board.

Born: San Diego, California

ISLN: 909379658