Marks v. Whitney

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a patentee of tidelands has no right to fill and develop his trust land property in a way that interferes with the public’s rights in those lands
• “Reclamation with or without prior authorization from the state does not ipso facto terminate the public trust ... ”
• public trust protects ecological values and right to preserve tidelands in natural state
• public trust protects ecological values and right to preserve tidelands in natural state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).