WILDLIFE ALIVE v. CHICKERING

Docket No. S.F. 23417.

18 Cal.3d 190 (1976)

553 P.2d 537

132 Cal. Rptr. 377

WILDLIFE ALIVE et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. SHERMAN CHICKERING et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

August 24, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert M. Berman, Bruce Tichinin and Tichinin & Mitchell for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Ballard Jamieson, Jr., and John D. Leshy as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Carl Boronkay and R.H. Connett, Assistant Attorney General, Raymond H. Williamson and Denis Smaage, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Thomas M. Hamilton, William M. McKenzie, Jr., Louis E. Goebel, Steven S. Wall, Richard M. Freeman, Ronald A. Zumbrun, Raymond M. Momboisse and Elleene A. Kirkland as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Mary D. Nichols as Amicus Curiae.


OPINION

RICHARDSON, J.

This case raises the general question whether the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) applies to the Fish and Game Commission (the commission). We will conclude that it does.

In 1974 the commission, in accordance with its normal procedures (Fish & G. Code, § 200 et seq.; Cal. Admin. Code,...

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