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Court to California : Entering Private Land for Water Tunnel Studies Is a Taking
March 14, 2014 | By J. DAVID BREEMER
In the latest development in California’s water wars, the California Court of Appeals issued a significant decision yesterday in Property Reserve, Inc. v. Superior Court, 2014 WL 978309 (Cal Ct. App. 2014). The opinion limits the State’s ability to enter and test private land it hopes to condemn for a public water project of stat ...
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PLF enters Martins Beach access controversy
May 13, 2015 | By CHRIS KIESER
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 … ...