Category Archives: Measure Z trial

Monterey >> Attorneys wrapped up their arguments on Thursday in the first phase of the Measure Z trial aimed at deciding whether the voter-approved initiative establishing some of the nation’s toughest oil and gas restrictions…

The first phase of the trial over Monterey County’s voter-approved fracking ban wrapped up Thursday afternoon.  Judge Thomas Wills has 90 days to make a decision. Oil companies and royalty owners filed multiple lawsuits against…

In a standing-room-only courtroom packed with about 20 attorneys, the first shots were fired Nov. 13 in the trial over Measure Z, a case that is being watched across the country as potentially setting a…