The San Jose Mercury News reports a fascinating legal battle is underway which could only take place on the left coast.
In a case with statewide significance, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office is pursuing a Sunnyvale couple under a little-known California law because redwood trees in their backyard cast a shadow over their neighbor’s solar panels.
Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett own a Prius and consider themselves environmentalists. But they refuse to cut down any of the trees behind their house on Benton Street, saying they’ve done nothing wrong.
Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.
Sissy Willis
WOODMAN, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I ’ll protect it now.
’T was my forefather’s hand 5
That placed it near his cot;
There, woodman, let it stand,
Thy axe shall harm it not . . .
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