Justice Morrison has tried, arbitrated, mediated and served as a judicial referee in numerous real property disputes involving complex development issues, as well as matters dealing with title issues, zoning, inverse condemnation, insurance, environmental cleanup liability, leasing, allocation of property tax revenue and eminent domain. Justice Morrison has been described as having “a quick intelligence, good judgment, and common sense.”
Representative Matters
Mediated case involving damage to real property caused by a landslide, inverse condemnation, negligence, and insurance issues
Mediated breach of contract case brought by a land owner and developer against a church
Mediated case involving environmental cleanup liability, contractual indemnification and real property leasing issues
Mediated dispute over the proper allocation of property tax revenues between county office of education and a school district
Mediated action to rescind a land sale based on a mutual violation of the Subdivision Map Act
Mediated action alleging unfair enforcement of CC&Rs by homeowners association
Served as a judge pro tem in a dispute over the ownership and inheritance of agriculture land