ECU004457 - City of Imperial v. County of Imperial
City of Imperial v. County of Imperial, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors, and real parties in interest (Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, LLC and landowner defendants). Sierra Club is intervenor. Judge L. Brooks Anderholt, Department 9. Petition for writ of mandate under CEQA challenging approval of the project and lot merger.
Case status: active. On September 9, 2026 the court adopted its August 31 tentative decision as its final Decision, overturning the approval, and ordered the City of Imperial to prepare the judgment and writ within 10 days; the order notes that objections to the tentative decision were not considered (deemed waived under Rule of Court 3.1590). As of September 25, 2026 the parties are exchanging objections to the proposed judgment and writ (real parties' objection September 18; further objection September 24). No judgment has been entered and no appeal appears on the docket as of September 25, 2026.
Document index
Coverage and availability
- The Register of Actions export (CSV, 219 entries) is current as of September 25, 2026; document staging is in progress and roughly 145 filings are still being added.
- The proposed judgment and proposed writ exchanged September 16-18, 2026 are not posted to the court's public document portal (unstamped "proposed" documents); they can be requested from the court clerk.
- The December 4, 2025 verified petition and two September 2026 briefs are reproduced from KPBS's public posting of the same documents, pending portal staging.