FRIENDS OF MAMMOTH v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Docket No. Sac. 7924.

8 Cal.3d 247 (1972)

502 P.2d 1049

104 Cal. Rptr. 761

FRIENDS OF MAMMOTH et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF MONO COUNTY et al., Defendants and Respondents; INTERNATIONAL RECREATION, LTD., Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 21, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John C. McCarthy and Young, Henrie & McCarthy for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Louise H. Renne and Nicholas C. Yost, Deputy Attorneys General, Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., John R. Phillips, Frederic P. Sutherland, Beatrice Challiss Laws, J. Edd Steppe and Sandy English as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

N. Edward Denton, District Attorney, David M. Kennedy, Assistant District Attorney, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Adolph Moskovitz, Robert E. Murphy and Clifford W. Schulz for Defendants and Respondents.

Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, R. Reaves Elledge, Jr., and Browning E. Marean III for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

This case affords us the first opportunity to construe provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 (EQA). (Pub. Resources Code, §§ 21000-21151.)1 As the express legislative intent forthrightly declares, the EQA was designed to be a milestone in the campaign for "maintenance of a quality environment for the people of this state now and in the future...." (&...

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