Rutherford v. State of California

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the public interest exception to reexamine the constitutionality of a state environmental statute and the manner of its enforcement
• “[A] stream need not flow continuously and sometimes due to climatic conditions may outwardly appear dry.”
• unclear if issue was actually resolved where appellate department reversed without an opinion
• court justified in applying exception to collateral estoppel because not to do so would allow defendant to be subject to prior law, while others similarly situated would be subject to new law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).