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STEVEN A. MCKINLEY
steven@mckinleylegal.net
EDUCATION
- University of San Diego, 1979, Juris Doctor
- San Diego State University, 1976, Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Political Science
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- California State Bar Association
- Nevada State Bar Association
- San Diego County Bar Association
- San Diego County Board of Realtors
PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS AND LICENSES
- Admitted to Practice Before All Courts in State of California
- Admitted to Practice Before All Courts in State of Nevada
- United States District Court, Southern District
- United States District Court, Central District
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- "A-V Preeminent" Rating by Martindale-Hubble, 1999-Present
PROFESSIONAL AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation
- Real Property Litigation
- Real Estate Broker Liability
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Breach of Contract
- Agreed Boundaries
- Adverse Possession
- Prescriptive Easement
- Quiet Title
- Title Insurance
- Insurance Bad Faith
- Construction Defects
- Landlord and Tenant Relations
- Business and Partnership Disputes
- Land Use, Land Entitlement, Land Acquisitions and Development
- Tentative Map and Final Map
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Partner: Freeland McKinley & McKinley
- 2011-Present
- Partner: Asaro Keagy Freeland & McKinley
- 1988-2011
- Associate: Asaro & Keagy
- 1983-1987
- City of San Diego, Civil Division, Deputy City Attorney:
- 1982-1983
- City of San Diego, Criminal Division, Deputy City Attorney:
- 1981-1982
- Associate: Dorman & Dorman
- 1979-1981
PUBLISHED DECISIONS IN THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
- INDEMNITY LAW:
- Bay Development, Ltd. v. Superior Court (1990) 50 Cal.3d 1012
- (cross complaint for implied contractual indemnity barred by good faith settlement determination)
- TRUST DEED/FORECLOSURE LAW: Thoryk v San Diego Gas & Electric, et. al.. (2014) 225 Cal. App. 4th 386 (scope of lender's remedies against additional collateral after non-judicial foreclosure).
- REAL ESTATE BROKER/AGENCY/FRAUD LAW: Manderville v. PCG&S (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 1486 (CAR form residential purchase agreement and BIA provisions insufficient to exculpate real estate broker from fraud claims); Brown v. FSR Brokerage, Inc(1998) 62 Cal.App.4th 766 (real estate broker liable for failure to timely disclose dual agency notwithstanding buyer signing agency disclosures at opening of escrow).
- EMINENT DOMAIN/INVERSE CONDEMNATION LAW
- Red Mountain, LLC v. Fallbrook Public Utility District (2006) 143 Cal.App.4th 333 (inverse condemnation liability could not be based upon interpretation of ambiguous grant language against public entity).
- LAND USE AND MUNICIPAL LAW College Area Renters & Landlords Assn. v. City of San Diego (1996) 43 Cal. App. 4th 677 (ordinance restricting student occupancy of single family residences struck down as violating equal protection clause): Mira Development Corp. v. City of San Diego (1988) 205 Cal.App.3d 1201 (City not required to rezone to conform to general and specific plan).
