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BUNCH v. COACHELLA VALLEY WATER DIST.

Docket No. S051966.

15 Cal.4th 432 (1997)

KENNETH BUNCH et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COACHELLA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

May 8, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Oliver, Barr & Vose, Oliver, Vose, Sandifer, Murphy & Lee, Arthur J. Hazarabedian and James Duff Murphy for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

James S. Burling, Stephen E. Abraham, Gordon & Rees, Douglas B. Harvey, David Collins, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Lloyd Hinkleman, Desmond, Miller & Desmond, Richard F. Desmond, Gary Livaich, Dopkins & Rolfe and William E. Dopkins III as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Redwine and Sherrill, Justin M. McCarthy, Gerald D. Shoaf, Steven B. Abbott and Seth C. Thomspon for Defendant and Respondent.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jan S. Stevens, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank and David DeAlba, Deputy Attorneys General, Martha H. Lennihan, Baker, Manock & Jensen, Douglas B. Jensen, John L.B. Smith, William S. Barcus, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, Ellen J. Garber, Susannah T. French, Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, Thomas N. Cooper, Gordon B. Burns, Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silber & Wilson, Andrea J. Saltzman, David W. Skinner, Steven R. Meyers, Lepper, Schaefer & Harrrington and Gary M. Lepper as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

CHIN, J.

Article I, section 19 of the California Constitution (section 19) provides that when a public entity takes or damages property, it must pay the owner just compensation. (See, e.g., Locklin v. City of Lafayette (1994) 7 Cal.4th 327, 362 [27 Cal.Rptr.2d 613, 867 P.2d 724] (Locklin...

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