In its most simple form, state law says that beaches must have public access, but a group of wealthy coastal homeowners are trying to limit this access. In an attempt to get a new judge, they’ve asked the current judge–a day before the cross complaint was to be filed–to be disqualified from the case. And, instead of waiting for a decision the typical “next step” of appealing the lower court decision, the homeowners are “judge shopping.”

Read the Los Angeles Times article.