SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A lawsuit seeking to halt California’s high speed rail project has again been turned down in a state court, with the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Sacramento ruling the project’s segmented building plan did not violate the state constitution.
The Los Angeles Times, which describes the case as the last pending civil lawsuit seeking to stop the project, reports a three-judge panel issued a ruling on Tuesday that upheld a lower-court decision.
The suit alleged the project violated portions of the 2008 bond act to fund construction that said money would be spent only for segments “suitable and ready for high-speed train operation,” since some money is being spent on portions of the system that will be shared with conventional rail operations in the Bay Area and Southern California.
An attorney for the plaintiffs — San Joaquin Valley farmer John Tos, former high speed rail chairman Quentin Kopp, and the city of Atherton, Calif. — said it would be up to his clients whether to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
