"If experience is any guide, our decision not to order review will be misconstrued by some as an affirmative determination by this court that under the law, bumble bees are fish," Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote in an unusual explanation that was also signed by Associate Justices Carol Corrigan and Joshua Groban.
September 21, 2022 at 09:24 PM
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Bees can be treated like fish under California’s environmental laws, and no, jurists aren’t wacky for upholding that finding, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday.
The high court let stand a much-publicized and, in some corners, much-derided opinion by the Third District Court of Appeal in May that the bumble bee falls within the definition of a fish under the California Environmental Species Act.
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Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
