Californians for Native Salmon & Steelhead Ass'n v. Department of Forestry

Opinion

HANING, J.

This case raises the issue of whether an action for declaratory relief may lie against an administrative agency when it is alleged that the agency has a policy of ignoring or violating applicable laws and regulations, but when no specific agency decision is attacked. Californians for Native Salmon and Steelhead Association, an unincorporated association, Environmental Protection and Information Center, a nonprofit corporation, and Fred “Coyote” Downey, a Native American of the Wailaki People, appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered upon an order sustaining the demurrer of…