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PAYNE v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30455.

17 Cal.3d 908 (1976)

553 P.2d 565

132 Cal. Rptr. 405

TORREY WOOD PAYNE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; SOUTH BAY SENTRY DOGS, INC., Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

September 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Torrey Wood Payne, in pro. per., and William Sheffield, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Michael B. Weisz and Stan Gunterman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

John H. Larson, County Counsel, and Michael H. Dougherty, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Russell Iungerich, Shunji Asari and Carol Wendelin Pollack, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

No appearance for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Few liberties in America have been more zealously guarded than the right to protect one's property in a court of law. This nation has long realized that none of our freedoms would be secure if any person could be deprived of his possessions without an opportunity to defend them "`at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.'" (Fuentes v. Shevin (1972) 407 U.S. 67,...

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