Vinod Khosla has a pretty great life. For starters, he’s worth $2.4 billion, thanks to co-founding Sun Microsystems in 1982 before starting his eponymous venture-capital firm. He’s got four kids, serves on a number of prestigious boards, and owns a stunning multi-million-dollar beachfront house just south of California’s Half Moon Bay. But there is one thing that’s been infringing upon his bliss for some time now: irksome commoners who think they should have access to his backyard.

For nearly a decade, Khosla has been forced to battle surfers and other such punks, after he closed a road on his 89-acre beachfront property—a road that happened to lead to Martin’s Beach, a popular cove long frequented by locals for its stunning natural beauty. Originally, he’d kept the road open, charging beachgoers $10 a day for access as was the custom set by the previous owner. But in 2010, he decided no more, and put up some very unfriendly “no trespassing” signs, a locked gate, and a bunch of armed guards. At one point, Khosla told the state of California that if it wanted to pay him $30 million to reopen the road it was free to do so, but weirdly there were no bites. And after a number of lawsuits and a court of appeals judgement that affirmed a ruling against him, the billionaire is taking this thing all the way to the top:

Khosla . . . filed his petition to the Supreme Court Thursday following a four-year court battle in which he sought to persuade the state judiciary to keep surfers and other members of the public off of his beachfront property.

Khosla’s 151-page petition asks the nation’s top court to uphold what he says are his property rights. He describes the case as a “textbook physical invasion of private property.”

Unsurprisingly Mark Massara, a lawyer representing a group of surfers who’ve been fighting to keep the beach open, thinks otherwise. If Khosla’s legal theory is upheld, Massara said, the potential ramifications for California beach users “are frankly catastrophic.”

“This is a case of a person who thinks he’s bigger than the law because he has more money than anyone else,” a long-time surfer told The Wall Street Journal in 2016, around the time that Khosla’s attorneys sent a letter to the California State Lands Commission making that tempting $30 million offer. Which seems a little unfair—after all, what’s the harm in commandeering the prime parking, or bulldozing one teeny-tiny forest, or barring the riffraff from your $32.5 million property, if you have the billion-dollar valuation to back it up?