California Court of Appeal

The California State Lands Commission's approval of a land exchange agreement, where it conveyed former tidelands that have been filled and are no longer "on navigable" waters, violated Public Resources Code section 6307.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2005
• Published 04/21/2005

Judges

• RAYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chatten-Brown & Associates, Jan Chatten-Brown, Douglas P. Carstens, and Amy Minteer, Santa Monica, for Plaintiff and Appellant., Laurens H. Silver for Coastal Protection, Save Our NTC, Inc., Natural Resources Defense Council, and Surfrider Foundation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Alan V. Hager, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Respondent California State Lands Commission., Robert E. Shannon, City Attorney, James McCabe, Deputy City Attorney;  Rutan & Tucker, M. Katherine Jenson, and Robert S. Bower for Defendant and Respondent City of Long Beach., Radcliff Dongell Lawrence, Richard A. Dongell, John A. Lawrence, Los Angeles, and Christopher T. Johnson for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.