Gold dredging situation in California is like something out of a science fiction mo

5/6/15 reposting new 49ers email dredging update:


In a surprising oral ruling on 30 April in San Bernardino, 
Judge Ochoa instructed our attorney that we could not file 
for injunctive relief in Siskiyou County to prevent California 
Department of Wildlife (DFW) wardens from enforcing the 
unconstitutional suction dredge moratorium. The judge instructed 
that our motion for injunctive relief should be decided in his 
own courtroom at 8:30 am on the 23rd of June. The good news is 
that he also suggested that he is inclined to grant us the 
relief we are asking for.

Therefore, the existing status quo has not changed. Prospectors 
believe Judge Ochoa’s Ruling allows us the right to operate our 
dredges. More dredgers are arriving in Happy Camp by the day to 
begin the 2015 season. DFW wardens warn that they will be out 
seizing dredging gear that is in violation of the unconstitutional 
moratorium. And Judge Ochoa ruled that there will be no civil 
remedy available for dredgers to stop the unlawful conduct of DFW 
wardens for another 8 weeks or so. 

But in a surprising turn of events on the first of May, California 
Fish & Wildlife (DFW) wardens arrested two suction dredgers on the 
Klamath River who had recently discovered a very substantial underwater gold deposit. The arrest was because they refused to 
sign the citations they were being issued. The citations were written 
for violating the unlawful moratorium and 2012 regulations, both which 
have already been struck down by Judge Ochoa in San Bernardino County. 
This case will allow our Siskiyou County Court to decide in early June 
if wardens have any authority to enforce a moratorium that has already 
been struck down as illegal.

This whole ever-evolving situation is like something out of a science 
fiction story!  You can read all about it in our video-enhanced free 
May newsletter right here:

http://www.goldgold.com/newsletter-may-2015.html

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All the best,

Dave Mack