STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT (LYON)

Docket No. S.F. 23981.

29 Cal.3d 210 (1981)

625 P.2d 239

172 Cal. Rptr. 696

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LAKE COUNTY, Respondent; RAYMOND R. LYON et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

March 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, N. Gregory Taylor and Jan Stevens, Assistant Attorneys General, Denis Smaage, Stephen Mills and Richard M. Frank, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioners.

R. Frederic Fisher, Laurens H. Silver, James B. Frankel, F. Bruce Dodge, Palmer Brown Madden, Morrison & Foerster, P.A. Towner, Russell R. Kletzing, John Kramer and Katherine A. Striemer as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Charles D. Haughton, County Counsel, Robert L. Bridges, Deputy County Counsel, Edgar B. Washburn, Barbara L. Gately and Washburn, Kemp & Wagenseil for Real Parties in Interest.

Harry D. Miller, Karl E. Geier, Miller, Starr & Regalia, Green, Green & Rigby and Denslow Green as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In City of Berkeley v. Superior Court (1980) 26 Cal.3d 515 [162 Cal.Rptr. 327, 606 P.2d 362], we reaffirmed the ancient doctrine that tidelands — lands between the lines of mean high tide and mean low tide — are owned by the public, that the state holds these lands in trust...

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