State of California, Ex Rel. State Lands Commission v. United States of America, Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, Sierra Club, Intervenors

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

The State of California appeals from a judgment awarding the United States title to land exposed by the recession of Mono Lake. California argues that the district court erred in 1) adopting federal rather than state law as the rule of decision to determine the ownership of the exposed lake bed; 2) applying the law of reliction to the recession of Mono Lake; 3) selecting the methodology to be used in determining whether the recession of the Lake has been “gradual and imperceptible” for purposes of the reliction doctrine; and 4) granting intervention to the Sierra Club…