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SIERRA CLUB v. MORTON

No. C-71-500-CBR.

400 F.Supp. 610 (1975)

SIERRA CLUB, a non-profit California Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, as Secretary of the Interior of the United States, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

July 28, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Clark, Pettit, Evers & Martin, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Hank Schramm.

Michael R. Sherwood, San Francisco, Cal., Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, for plaintiff Sierra Club.

Gary J. Near, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs Friends of the Earth and William Dixon.

James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., Francis Boone, Richard J. Dauber, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Francisco, Cal., for federal defendants.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., Carl Boronkay, R. H. Connett, Bertram G. Buzzini, Deputy Attys. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for state defendants.

Victor E. Gleason, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervening defendant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

James G. McCain, Corcoran, Cal., for intervening defendant Tulare Lake Basin Storage District.

Albert Thomas Henley, San Jose, Cal., and Daniel F. Gallery, Sacramento, Cal., for intervening defendant Santa Clara Water District.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

RENFREW, District Judge.

In 1971 two environmental groups and two individuals brought this action to contest the allegedly unlawful construction and operation of three major facilities of the California Water Project. The parties agreed to bifurcate the trial of the action into a liability phase and a relief phase. The liability phase was tried to the Court between June 10, 1974, and June 21, 1974. Subsequently, on July 26, 1974, the...

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