QUANTIFICATION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT CASES

No. C064293.

201 Cal.App.4th 758 (2011)

134 Cal. Rptr. 3d 274

QUANTIFICATION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT CASES.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

December 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory Natsis, David L. Osias , Mark J. Hattam ; Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote and John Penn Carter for Plaintiff and Appellant Imperial Irrigation District.

Rutan & Tucker, Joel D. Kuperberg and Michelle Molko for Defendant and Appellant Vista Irrigation District.

Endeman, Lincoln, Turek & Heater, Donald R. Lincoln ; and Jeffrey R. Epp , City Attorney, for Defendant and Appellant City of Escondido.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck , Lisabeth D. Rothman , Amy M. Steinfeld ; Todd R. Leishman ; and Daniel S. Hentschke for Defendant and Appellant San Diego County Water Authority.

Redwine and Sherrill , Steven B. Abbott , Julianna K. Strong ; Law Offices of Best Best & Krieger, Michelle Ouellette and Melissa R. Cushman for Defendant and Appellant Coachella Valley Water District.

Karen L. Tachiki , Linus Masouredis , Adam C. Kear and John Schlotterbeck for Defendant and Appellant The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Kathleen A. Kenealy , Assistant Attorney General, Sara J. Russell , Daniel Fuchs , Clifford T. Lee , Marilyn Levin and Gary Tavetian , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant State of California acting by and through the Department of Fish and Game and the Department of Water Resources.

Michael L. Rood , County Counsel, Katherine Turner , Deputy County Counsel; Jackson DeMarco Tidus Peckenpaugh , Michael L. Tidus , Alene M. Taber and Kathryn M. Casey for Defendant and Appellant Imperial County Air Pollution Control District.

Michael L. Rood , County Counsel, Katherine Turner , Deputy County Counsel; Rossmann and Moore, Antonio Rossmann , Roger B. Moore , Laurie Mikkelsen and Barton Lounsbury for Defendant and Appellant County of Imperial.

Michael B. Jackson ; and Rose M. Zoia for Defendant and Appellant Protect Our Water and Environmental Rights.

Ignacia S. Moreno , United States Assistant Attorney General, John L. Smeltzer ; Stephen M. MacFarlane , Aaron P. Avila , Robert F. Snow and M. Rodney Smith, Jr. , for the United States of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Robert S. Pelcyger ; and Barbara Karshmer for San Luis Rey Indian Water Authority as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Law Offices of Patrick J. Maloney, Patrick J. Maloney , Thomas S. Virsik ; Law Office of Cressey H. Nakagawa and Cressey H. Nakagawa for Defendants and Respondents Walter Holtz, Toni Holtz, Michael W. Morgan, John J. Elmore, Richard Elmore, Gary Foster and Rodney Foster.

Ronald Leimgruber , in pro. per., and Laura Leimgruber , in pro. per., for Defendants and Respondents.

Larry Porter , in pro. per., for Defendant and Respondent.

Sutherland & Gerber and Lowell F. Sutherland for Defendants and Respondents Donald V. Barioni, Beach Line Citrus, LLC, Bixby Land Company, Robert S. Chell, Coast Imperial Partners, Donald L. Howard and Kimberlee A. Howard as Trustees, Chrisman B. Jackson and Mary A. Jackson as Trustees, John D. Jackson, Jr., Individually and as Trustee, Margaret M. Lillywhite and Daniel H. Lillywhite as Trustees, Daniel H. Lillywhite and Robin J. Lillywhite as Trustees, Rosal Randes, Sali Properties, The Sinclair Ranches, LLC, TAC Land, LLC, Charles H. Westmoreland and Alexa Westmoreland as Trustees.

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Malissa Hathaway McKeith , Kara E. Granowitz , Kimberly A. Huangfu and Lisa W. Cooney for Defendant and Respondent Cuatro Del Mar.

Lippe Gaffney Wagner , Keith G. Wagner ; and Caryn Mandelbaum for Planning and Conservation League and Environment Now as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Kenyon Yeates and Bill Yeates for Defenders of Wildlife, Audubon California and Pacific Institute as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Youtz & Valdez, Shane Youtz ; Law & Resource Planning Associates, Charles T. DuMars and Stephen Curtice for Citizens for a Reliable Water Supply as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

ROBIE, Acting P. J.

For the better part of 100 years, citizens of the American Southwest have been fighting over the right to water from the Colorado River. While the United States Supreme Court largely settled the interstate conflict over that water nearly 50 years ago, in Arizona v. California (1963) 373 U.S. 546 [10 L.Ed.2d 542, 83 S.Ct. 1468], the court's resolution of the dispute

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