YELLEN v. HICKEL

Civ. No. 69-124.

352 F.Supp. 1300 (1972)

Ben YELLEN et al., Plaintiffs, v. Walter J. HICKEL, Individually and as Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants, W. E. Jacobs et al., Intervening Landowners.

United States District Court, S. D. California.

September 27, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Brunwasser, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

William R. Klein and Douglas N. King, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Charles W. Bender, Patrick Lynch and James Selna, Los Angeles, Cal., and Harry D. Steward, U. S. Atty., San Diego, Cal., for intervening defendants.


OPINION

WILLIAM D. MURRAY, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this suit seeking a writ of mandamus requiring the Secretary of the Interior to enforce Section 5 of the Reclamation Law of 1902.1 On November 23, 1971, a partial summary judgment was issued against the federal government,2 the initial defendants in the suit. The landowners of Imperial Valley, believing that their interests were...

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