Hazel Green Ranch, LLC v. United States Department of the Interior

I concur with the decision to affirm the district court, but depart from the majority’s reasoning for dismissing Hazel *883Green s claim based on its easement right under California law as a landowner abutting a county road. I believe Hazel Green lacks a cognizable property interest to bring a claim under the Quiet Title Act. Hazel Green’s interest in accessing the roads is ultimately not fundamentally different from public access rights which have been deemed insufficient to assert a claim under the Quiet Title Act. See, e.g., Long v. Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, 236 F.3d 910, 915 (8th…