A ruling in the case of prominent developer Phil Tagami’s suit against Oakland over a City Council coal ban is at least weeks away.
Tagami filed suit in December 2016, six months after the Oakland City Council voted to ban transport and storage of coal within city limits. The unanimous vote applied city-wide, but was directed at Tagami and the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, a $250 million global logistics center on the Outer Harbor near the Port of Oakland.
The trial centered on whether Oakland breached its 2013 development agreement with Tagami, which did not specify the commodities he and affiliated companies could transport through the terminal.
