Legal Opinion
Washington State Geoduck Harvest Ass'n v. Department of Natural Resources
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided November 30, 2004No. 31004-0-IIPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Van Deren, J.
— Washington State Geoduck Harvest Association (Association) appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Douglass Sutherland, Commissioner of Public Lands. The Association argues that DNR has no authority to regulate geoduck harvesting and that DNR regulations for auctioning geoduck harvesting rights (1) violate the public trust doctrine, (2) violate equal protection safeguards, and (3) are inconsistent with RCW 77.04.012. Finding no error, we affirm.
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¶2 The Association represents a group of commercial…
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