NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, Trout Unlimited of California, Bay Institute of San Francisco, California Natural Resources Federation, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Trout, Friends of the River, Northern California Guides Association, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center, Sierra Club, Stanislaus Audubon Society, Inc., United Anglers of California, California Striped Bass Association, and National Audubon Society, Plaintiffs,
v.
Roger PATTERSON, as Regional Director of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Manual LUJAN, Jr., as Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, and Friant Water Users Authority, Defendants,
Orange Cove Irrigation District, Lindmore Irrigation District, Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District, Terra Bella Irrigation District, Exeter Irrigation District, Ivanhoe Irrigation District, Tulare Irrigation District, Lower Tule River Irrigation District, Saucelito Irrigation District, Delano-Earlimont Irrigation District, Teapot Dome Water District, Arvin-Edison Water Storage District, Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District, Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District, Porterville Irrigation District, Stone Corral Irrigation District, Chowchilla Water District, Madera Irrigation District, Defendants/Intervenors.
United States District Court, E.D. California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 30, 1992.
April 30, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John B. Clark, Philip F. Atkins-Pattenson, Cinthia R. Fischer, Janet M. Alexander, Pettit & Martin, Hamilton Candee, Natural Resources Defense Council, Laurens H. Silver, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., and Patrick O'Donnell, Levy, Samrick & Bernard, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.
Kenneth A. Kuney, Berryhill & Kuney, Tulare, Cal., Ernest A. Conant, Scott K. Kuney, Young, Wooldridge, Paulden, Self & Farr, Bakersfield, Cal., Jan L. Kahn, Daniel M. Dooley, Kahn, Soares & Conway, Visalia, Cal., Jeffrey A. Meith, Michael V. Sexton, Minasian, Minasian, Minasian, Spruance, Baber, Meith & Soares, Oroville, Cal., Denslow Green, Green, Green & Rigby, Madera, Cal., and Gary W. Sawyers, Bolen, Fransen & Boostrom, Fresno, Cal., for nonfederal defendants.
George L. O'Connell, U.S. Atty., Maria A. Iizuka, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Sacramento, Cal., K. Jack Haugrud and Eileen Sobeck, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendant U.S. (federal defendants).
United States District Court, E.D. California.
ORDER
KARLTON, Chief Judge Emeritus.
Plaintiffs, various environmental groups, seek to enjoin the Bureau of Reclamation ("Bureau") from entering into renewal contracts to supply water from the Friant Dam unit of the Central Valley Project.1 They allege violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. § 4332, the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1536, the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), 5 U.S.C...
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