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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 21:13:21+00:00

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Andrew W. Schwartz joined Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, LLP in 2005 after 22 years in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where he was head of land use and environmental litigation. Mr. Schwartz is a partner with the firm. His practice areas are regulatory takings, eminent domain, real estate transactions, redevelopment, rent control and land use and real estate litigation.
Mr. Schwartz has been a frequent participant in takings cases as counsel for parties and as amicus curiae. In June 2010, Mr. Schwartz presented the oral argument before an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit in Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, where the City won an important victory for public agencies compelled to defend mobilehome rent control ordinances and other health, safety, and environmental legislation against takings challenges. He was a member of the firm’s winning litigation team in San Remo Hotel v. City and County of San Francisco, in which the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that unsuccessful state-court takings claimaints are not entitled to relitigate their claims in federal court. Mr. Schwartz authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the League of California Cities in the Supreme Court regulatory takings case, Lingle v. Chevron. Mr. Schwartz also co-authored an amicus brief on the merits in the Supreme Court takings case Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, involving a challenge to funding legal services for the poor through Interest On Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA). He has argued more than 40 appeals in the state and federal courts and was the lead attorney in more than 20 cases that have resulted in published decisions. Most recently, Mr. Schwartz won a significant appellate victory for the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency in an eminent domain action (SAFCA v. Dhaliwal), where the owner appealed a jury verdict awarding the owner $208,000, where SAFCA’s appraisal was $108,000, and the owner’s appraisal was $1,130,000.
Mr. Schwartz also won a recent victory in a jury trial on behalf of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority in an eminent domain action to acquire a five-story office building for the Transbay Transit Center Project (City and County of SF v. Invesmaster Corp.). The property owner’s appraiser valued the property at $12,000,000; the City’s/TJPA’s appraisal was for $7,700,000. After an eight-day trial, the jury returned a verdict of $7,950,000, only 3% above the City’s/TJPA’s appraisal. The property is needed for the train tunnel and bus ramp for the Transbay Project.
In 1998, Mr. Schwartz co-founded the Community Land Use Project of California, a special project of California's Institute for Local Self Government. The Project assisted local government agencies in preserving an appropriate balance between individual property rights and community interests. Mr. Schwartz regularly consults with the California League of Cities and California State Association of Counties on amicus participation in regulatory takings and eminent domain appellate litigation.
Mr. Schwartz received the County Counsels’ Association of California Litigation Program Award for 2003, the American Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award 2003, and the Daily Journal California Lawyer of the Year Award (CLAY) for 2006. He has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer for each year since its inception, a designation awarded to only the top 5% of Northern California lawyers. He is also listed in the Best Lawyers in America and San Francisco’s Top Rated Lawyers by American Lawyer Media and has received the AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He is a member of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Lambda Alpha International Honorary Land Economics Society. Mr. Schwartz received his J.D. from UCLA in 1979, where he was on the Law Review, and his B.A. from Stanford in 1976.
Mr. Schwartz is a member of the Bar of the State of California, the United States Supreme Court, and several other federal courts.

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