CITY OF LOS ANGELES v. VENICE PENINSULA PROPERTIES

Docket No. L.A. 31422.

31 Cal.3d 288 (1982)

644 P.2d 792

182 Cal. Rptr. 599

CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent, v. VENICE PENINSULA PROPERTIES et al., Defendants, Cross-defendants and Appellants; THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ex rel. STATE LANDS COMMISSION, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

May 10, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hill, Farrer & Burrill, John N. McLaurin, William M. Bitting, Steven W. Bacon, William A. Dorland and Maxine F. Thomas for Defendants, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Edgar B. Washburn and Washburn, Kemp & Wagensell as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Burt Pines and Ira Reiner, City Attorneys, and Norman L. Roberts, Assistant City Attorney, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, N. Gregory Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, and Nancy Alvarado Saggese, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Frederic P. Sutherland, Hal J. Bohner, Sanford M. Skaggs, Palmer Brown Madden, Maria P. Rivera and Van Voorhis & Skaggs as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent and Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

(1) In a series of recent cases, this court has considered the scope and effect of the public trust doctrine. Under that doctrine, the state holds a trust interest on behalf of the public in tidelands (City of Berkeley v. Superior Court (1980) 26 Cal.3d 515 [162 Cal.Rptr. 327, 606 P.2d 362

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