La Jolla Bar Association, September MCLE Luncheon

The next LJBA lunchtime MCLE program will be Thursday, September 8th at 12:00 noon, at the Manhattan of La Jolla restaurant (within the Empress Hotel @ 7766 Fay Avenue).

We are pleased to have our 2016 President, Donald R. Lincoln, speaking to us on “The San Luis Rey Indian Water Dispute and Settlement,” a presentation which will address the rich and involved history of this complicated local water rights dispute, which has been at play since 1875 when the United States set aside reservations for local Indian tribes with rights to the San Luis Rey River waters, and north county cities and county areas began diverting that water to their own purposes.

Don’s presentation will address the governmental actions, state and federal laws, and the multiple litigations during the history of this dispute, including the difficulties involved in bringing to conclusion a settlement of the dispute. This program will be both interesting and topical, given recent congressional efforts toward concluding that settlement.

Links to Supporting Information:

• The San Luis Rey indian Water Dispute and Settlement
• Escondido And VID Local Water Facilities

Information about our speaker:

Don Lincoln is a graduate of Cornell University (A.B., 1962); Duke University (LL.B., with distinction, 1967); and the University of San Diego (LL.M. Tax, 1989).   Experienced in many areas of civil law, Don’s primary practice has been representing municipal agencies as special counsel in complex administrative, trial and appellate proceedings.  He has also participated in the drafting of local, state and federal legislation.

Don has been counsel of record in more than thirty reported appellate cases, including successfully representing the City of  Escondido before the United States Supreme Court in two cases, one involving a water and power dispute against five Indian Bands (Escondido Mutual Water Company, et al., v. La Jolla Band of Mission Indians, et al., 466 U.S. 765 (1984), and the second upholding a city’s right to enact mobilehome park space rent control (Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992)).

Some of Don’s other appellate work include representing fifty-two California counties in a property tax case before the Ninth Circuit (Marvin Poer and Company v. County of Alameda, et al., 725 F. 2d 1234 (9th Cir. 1984), and presenting oral argument as Amicus Curiae on behalf of seventy-six cities in a mobilehome park rent control case before the California Supreme Court (Galland v. City of Clovis, 24 Cal.4th 1003 (2001).

Don is the current President of the La Jolla Bar Association; a past President of the Kearny Mesa Rotary Club; and Commander, USNR (Retired).

Written materials for this MCLE event next week are attached as PDF files on the website.
Written materials were also emailed to members.