California has sued tech billionaire Vinod Khosla over beach access, reviving a decade-long legal battle

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• The state of California filed a lawsuit against billionaire tech investor Vinod Khosla on Monday, alleging that he restricted access to a beach in San Mateo county.
• The Sun Microsystems co-founder bought properties bordering San Mateo's Martins Beach for roughly $32 million back in 2008, and closed off public access to it in 2010.  
• The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the California Coastal Commission and the State Lands Commission, revives the decade-long bitter legal battle over access to that beach. Their argument revolves on whether Martins Beach has historically been a public beach. 
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The state of California just revived a decade-long bitter legal battle with billionaire tech investor Vinod Khosla, over  restricting access to a strip of a San Mateo beach bordering his property. 

California's Attorney General filed a lawsuit on behalf of the California Coastal Commission and the State Lands Commission on Monday, alleging that Khosla had prevented the public from accessing Martins Beach, a San Mateo spot popular with locals for surfing and fishing. California's Constitution guarantees public access to all coastal beaches below the mean high tide line.

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