Friday, May 2, 2025 at 10:00a - Continued to May 30, 2025

SLO Superior Court - Department 2

1050 Monterey Street, SLO

The Morro Bay Commercial Fishermen's Organization and the Port San Luis Commercial Fishermen’s Association have an important SLO Superior Court hearing Friday, May 2 at 10am with Judge Van Rooyen against State Water and Land agencies, along with the CA Coastal Commission, Wind Developers, and Survey Company for proceeding with Site Surveys in Federal waters before legally required Data collection and Best Practice policies were developed.

This lawsuit was originally brought forward in February 2024 and was denied. It was appealed and sent to a higher court in Ventura, but first it has to go thru a process of arguing what evidence can be put forth in the appeal. The other side has dozens of attorneys burying our single attorney, William”Bill” S. Walter, in hundreds of pages of rebuttals and letters signed by the State Attorney General Rob Bonta asking the Judge to drop the case.

Thankfully, Bill has been able to get assistance by a “brilliant guy” that is willing to work on contingency. So wish us luck and if anybody is available to come and support the fishermen in court we would greatly appreciate it. Tom and I will be attending our daughter’s wedding in Hawaii so will be unable to attend in person but will try to watch via Zoom which is available to anyone on the SLO Superior Court website. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dasAAcABoLnmC4YOOuREG_Y2eThjGVHz/view