Arthur G. Kidman

Environmental, Mediation
695 Town Center Drive, Suite 400
Costa Mesa, California 926267187


Environmental

Admitted

1974, California and U.S. District Court, Southern, Central and Eastern Districts of California

Law School

University of Chicago, J.D., 1974

Law School Graduation Year

1974

College

Washington State University, B.A., with high honors, 1968

Memberships

Orange County Bar Association; The State Bar of California (Member, Sections on: Public Law; Real Property Law); Association of California Water Agencies (Member: Legislative Committee and Legal Affairs Committee; Chairman, Attorneys Conference, 1976-1980).

Biographical

Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Eta Sigma. Co-Author: The Relationship of Just Compensation to the Land Use Regulatory Power: An Analysis and Proposal, Symposium-Land Use Planning and Control, Pepperdine Law Review, Vol 2, 1974. Author: San Gabriel Valley Groundwater Contamination as Cause of Water Scarcity, Proceedings, 17th Biennial Conference on Groundwater. University of California Water Resources Center, California Department of Water Resources and State Water Resources Control Board, Report No. 72, September, 1989; Pros and Cons of Groundwater Management or Look Out For Some Extremely Bogus Thinking, Proceedings, 18th Biennial Conference on Groundwater, University of California Water Resources Center, California Department of Water Resources and State Water Resources Control Board, September 1991; Connections Between Groundwater and Surface Water, Proceedings 20th Biennial Conference on Groundwater, University of California Water Resources Center, California Department of Water Resources and State Water Resources Control Board, September 1995; Mojave Adjudication Judgement Ends Decades of Groundwater Basin Overdraft and Political Controversy, Vol 6, No. 5, California Water Law and Policy Reporter; There is no Paramount Overlying Water Right to Mine a Groundwater Basin, Vol. 9, No. 6, California Water Law and Policy Reporter; The State Doesn't Own Natural Water, Vol.10, No 8, California Water Law and Policy Reporter; What Now after Mojave? Are Overlying Farmers Entitled to Overdraft California Grandwater Basins, and Themselves, into Oblivion? Vol.11, No.1. California Water Law and Policy Reporter; A Rock and Hard Place: Financing Infrastructure, Vol. 11, No. 11, California Water Law and Policy Reporter; Another Rock...an Even Harder Place: Housing Development and Water Supply, Vol. 6, No. 2, Western Water Law and Policy Reporter. Extension Instructor in Water Law, University of California, Irvine. General Counsel, San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, 1993—; R

Military

1st Lt., U.S. Army, 1968-1971