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STATE OF CAL. EX REL. STATE LANDS v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S037729.

11 Cal.4th 50 (1995)

900 P.2d 648

44 Cal. Rptr.2d 399

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ex rel. STATE LANDS COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Respondent; RICHARD K. LOVELACE et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 31, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jan S. Stevens, Assistant Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Dennis M. Eagan, Joseph Barbieri, Kenneth R. Williams and Michael L. Crow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

McDonough, Holland & Allen, Stuart Somach, Virginia A. Cahill and Sandra K. Dunn for Real Parties in Interest.

Washburn, Briscoe & McCarthy, Edgar B. Washburn, Sean E. McCarthy, David M. Ivester, Louis F. Claiborne and Lyn Jacobs for Real Parties in Interest and as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

Zumbrun, Best & Findley, Ronald A. Zumbrun, Robert K. Best, R. Prescott Jaunich and James S. Burling as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

Beginning in 1848, and accelerating rapidly in 1849, gold lured fortune seekers to California. Hordes of prospectors panning or using other primitive methods quickly snatched up the wealth lying on the surface and in riverbeds. Soon, more advanced and environmentally intrusive techniques were utilized to reach the more inaccessible treasure hiding within the California hills. The era of hydraulic mining began....

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