California Court of Appeal

Beach erosion causing the failure of a bluff qualified as an emergency under the California Environmental Quality Act, and such an emergency need not be unexpected. Substantial evidence showed that collapse of the bluff could cause damage to life, health, and property, and that the condition required immediate action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/09/2002
• Published 11/06/2002

Judges

• O'ROURKE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Worden, Williams, Richmond, Brechtel & Kilpatarick, Donald Wayne Brechtel, Scott Williams; Richard J. Wharton for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Remy, Thomas & Moose, James G. Moose, Sacramento, Tiffany K. Wright; Office of The City Attorney, Celia A. Brewer for Defendants and Respondents.