Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Walton County v. Save Our Beaches, Inc.

SC06-1447 | SC06-1449

This Court is asked whether owners of oceanfront properties have been unconstitutionally deprived of their common-law water rights by a beach renourishment project. The First District Court of Appeal held that the landowners who joined together as Stop the Beach Renourishment were deprived of some of their rights without compensation and that a 2005 state law intended to restore eroded public beaches was unconstitutional as applied in this case.

Walton County