Alexander Lee Merritt

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Alex's recent
  representative matters include: Entitlements & CEQA Compliance : Representing developer in obtaining l
  use entitlements
  CEQA compliance for industrial cannabis project in Santa Rosa.
  Successfully obtained entitlements
  CEQA approval for data center project in Santa Clara.
  Successfully obtained entitlements
  CEQA approvals for major retailer on projects throughout Northern California.
  Successfully obtained entitlements for a new preschool in San Francisco.
  Successfully obtained entitlements
  approvals for retail project in Union Square, San Francisco.
  Public L
  s
  Representing energy company in obtaining conveyance of federally-reserved mineral rights in property in Imperial County, California.
  Defended telecommunications company in multiple cases before the Interior Board of L
  Appeals (IBLA) concerning alleged trespasses on public l
  s throughout the western U.S.
  Represented telecommunications company in litigation in D.C. District Court challenging application of Bureau of L
  Management (BLM) trespass regulations.
  Represented homebuilder in mineral trespass proceedings brought by BLM in connection with large residential development in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  L
  Use Litigation
  Representing developer in multiple CEQA cases challenging hotel projects in Los Angeles.
  Representing developer in Endangered Species Act litigation, challenging the Fish & Wildlife Service's adoption of a habitat conservation plan.
  Successfully defended CEQA challenge to retail project in Chico-at trial
  on appeal. Chico Advocates for a Responsible Economy v. City of Chico (2019) 40 Cal.App.5th 839.
  Prevailed on appeal in litigation challenging development moratorium on new charter schools. California Charter Schools Association v. City of Huntington Park (2019) 35 Cal.App.5th 362.
  Defended major retailer in CEQA
  l
  use cases on projects throughout northern
  southern California.
  Represented developer in CEQA litigation
  appeal for mixed-use project in Fremont.
  Successfully defended challenge to residential project in Milpitas. May v. City of Milpitas (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 1307
  Real Estate Litigation
  Representing property owner in partition action.
  Successfully represented retailer in quiet title action brought under the McEnerney Act in San Francisco.
  Represented retailer in eminent domain proceeding in Fresno relating to California's high speed rail project.
  Represented homeowners in litigation against their HOA seeking to quiet title to disputed parking areas
  roof decks
  obtained favorable settlement confirming title to the disputed areas.