ELR Citation: ELR 20232
No(s). s. 05-35802, -36126 (9th Cir. Oct 9, 2009)

The Ninth Circuit held that waterfront homeowners who built shoreline defense structures on U.S. tideland property held in trust for a Native American tribe are liable for common law trespass and for violating the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1899 (RHA). Between 1963 and 1988, the homeow...