Court hears Pacific Lumber case
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
May 09, 2008
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday in an environmental case stemming from the nearly $500 million public purchase of Headwaters Forest.
A 1999 lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and the Environmental Protection Information Center claims that the now-bankrupt Pacific Lumber Co. duped state regulators into agreeing to less stringent logging rules for 210,000 acres of company timberlands in Humboldt County.
Similar allegations were at the center of a 2002 decision by Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos to file civil fraud charges against Pacific Lumber because of the terms of the Headwaters deal.
Two weeks ago, Supreme Court justices refused to hear Gallegos’ appeal of the dismissal of his fraud case.
Now the high court is reviewing the original Headwaters lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and the environmental center in Garberville.
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