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caption id="attachment_49725" align="alignright" width="300" Caution: Repainting this sign may constitute development under the Coastal Act/caption Surfrider Foundation has been battling Vinod Khosla in the California courts for several years, trying to force him to allow the public to cross his private property and use his private beach. We've ...

Government workers have another chance to declare independence! Supreme Court asked to restore Utah prairie dog conservation program---and constitutional limits on federal power Neither legislative bodies nor government bureaucrats can steal property National Forest lands should be accessible to all -- not just a few hearty backpackers ...

Interior Secretary Zinke Recommends Bears Ears Reduction Indian River County School Board responds to public outcry, but continues to ignore First Amendment California Supreme Court protects private property Class Action action Florida family loses property rights' case in Florida appellate court Telling truth to tort Supreme ...

  Dear Californians, this is your California Coastal Commission: willing to fine property owners over four MILLION dollars for blocking "public access" that doesn't exist. Even to those who have spent years following (and fighting) the Coastal Commission's brazen overreaching, this is downright appalling. Two years ago, the California le ...

Should the public have the right to cross private property simply because it is next to a navigable water body? The California Court of Appeal may decide just that when it takes up the ongoing controversy over access to Martins Beach. As we have blogged about before, for decades the owners of the coastal property in San Mateo County south of Half M ...

Yesterday, a San Mateo Superior Court judge issued a stunning tentative ruling in one of the two Martins Beach lawsuits pending against coastal landowner Vinod Khosla. The judge concluded that the decision to disallow the public to trespass onto private property--after allowing the public to do so for a fee--constitutes "development" requiring a C ...

Author:  Paul Beard II On Friday, PLF attorneys filed a lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission—the State's worst abuser of property rights and of landowners who live and work in the State's coastal zone.  The case centers on the Commission's attempt to take a substantial public access easement from a f ...