CARSON-TRUCKEE WATER CONSERVANCY DIST. v. SECRETARY

No. 83-2542.

748 F.2d 523 (1984)

CARSON-TRUCKEE WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT; Sierra Pacific Power Company, a corporation; and State of Nevada, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, et al., Defendants, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 28, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Collette, Andrew J. Ogilvie, Collette & Erickson, San Francisco, Cal., Harold Swafford, John W. Hoffman, Bowen, Swafford & Hoffman, Reno, Nev., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Jeanne S. Whiteing, Steven C. Moore, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., for defendant-intervenor-appellant.

Before DUNIWAY, SCHROEDER, and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.


DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:

The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, having successfully intervened in the Water District's suit against the Secretary of the Interior, unsuccessfully sought attorney fees under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1540(g)(4). Carson-Truckee Water Conservancy Dist. v. Watt, D.Nev., 1983, 575 F.Supp. 467 (Carson-Truckee III). The Tribe appeals...

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