PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION v. CALIFORNIA COASTAL COM.

Docket No. L.A. 31564.

33 Cal.3d 158 (1982)

655 P.2d 306

188 Cal. Rptr. 104

PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION et al., Defendants and Respondents. E. WILLIAM JACKSON et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 20, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Ronald A. Zumbrun, Harold J. Hughes, Thomas E. Hookano, Elleene A. Kirkland, Howard E. Susman and Darlene E. Ruiz for Plaintiffs and Appellants and for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Sanford Jay Rosen, Rosen & Remcho, Catherine P. Rosen, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Noble K. Gregory, Robert M. Westberg, Kevin M. Fong, O'Neill & Huxtable, Hill, Farrer & Burrill, John N. McLaurin, Herman H. Fitzgerald, Gary R. Rinehart, Oliver, Stoever & Laskin, Redwine & Sherrill, Justin M. McCarthy, Ogle, Gallo & Merzon, Thorpe, Sullivan, Workman & Thorpe, Roger Sullivan, Desmond, Miller, Desmond & Bartholomew, Richard F. Desmond, Asaro & Keagy, Roscoe D. Keagy, Dankert & Kuetzing, Thomas M. Dankert, Richard L. Johnson and Renee C. Benjamin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants and Plaintiffs and Respondents.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, N. Gregory Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Peter H. Kaufman and Richard D. Sinclair, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant and for Defendants and Respondents.

Mark I. Weinberger, Alletta D'A. Belin, E. Clement Shute, Jr., Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, Michael B. Wilmar, Alan Pendleton, Frank Broadhead and Jonathan Smith as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant and Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In recent decades, the People of California have become painfully aware of the deterioration in the quality and availability of recreational opportunities along the California coastline due to the combined factors of an increasing demand for its use and the simultaneous decreasing supply of accessible land in the coastal zone. Growing public consciousness of the finite quantity and fragile nature of the coastal environment...

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