{"id":762,"date":"2017-03-22T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/03\/22\/legal-trend-are-all-waterways-open-to-the-public-no-not-up-north\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:11:00","slug":"legal-trend-are-all-waterways-open-to-the-public-no-not-up-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-are-all-waterways-open-to-the-public-no-not-up-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Are all Waterways Open to the Public? No, not up north."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Court:<\/strong>\u00a0South Dakota Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p><strong>What issue was the court trying to address:<\/strong>\u00a0Whether\u00a0all water was accessible to the public if it could be reached without trespassing on private land?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the Court say?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The legislature has considered this issue 3 times since 2004 and hasn&#8217;t passed any bill on the topic<\/li>\n<li>Forbids Game Fish &amp;Parks from facilitating access to the public on waters and ice over private property<\/li>\n<li>Game\u00a0Fish &amp;Parks, the state agency,\u00a0doesn\u2019t have the legal authority to allow people access to flooded waters or ice over private property without legislative approval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What did private property rights advocates say about the ruling?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game Fish &amp; Parks, the state agency, was motivated to &#8220;open additional lands to hunting and fishing without seeking legislative approval.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.argusleader.com\/story\/news\/2017\/03\/17\/high-court-strikes-victory-private-property-rights\/99302730\/\">Argus Leader |\u00a0High court strikes victory for private property rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Court:<\/strong>\u00a0South Dakota Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p><strong>What issue was the court trying to address:<\/strong>\u00a0Whether\u00a0all water was accessible to the public if it could be reached without trespassing on private land?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the Court say?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The legislature has considered this issue 3 times since 2004 and hasn&#8217;t passed any bill on the topic<\/li>\n<li>Forbids Game Fish &amp;Parks from facilitating access to the public on waters and ice over private property<\/li>\n<li>Game\u00a0Fish &amp;Parks, the state agency,\u00a0doesn\u2019t have the legal authority to\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}