Skanska USA Civil Southeast, Inc. and Skanska USA v. Bagelheads, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing this ownership as a \trust which requires the government of the state to preserve such waters for the use of the public\
• holding that “the same doctrine as to the dominion and sovereignty over and ownership of lands under the navigable waters . . . applies, which obtains at the common law as to the dominion and sovereignty over and ownership of lands under tide waters on the borders of the sea”
• noting that a state cannot abdicate its duties under the public trust doctrine
• affirming dismissal of federal claim under public trust doctrine, which 6 applies only to states
• referring to the state’s ownership of submerged land as “a title held in trust for the people of the state”
• referring to the state’s ownership of submerged land as “a title held in trust for the people of the state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).