WESTLANDS WATER DIST. v. FIREBAUGH CANAL

No. 93-15295.

10 F.3d 667 (1993)

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT; San Benito County Water District, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FIREBAUGH CANAL, Firebaugh Canal Water District; Central California Irrigation District; Columbia Canal Co.; San Luis Canal Co.; Friant Power Authority; Friant Water Users Authority; City of Fresno; Madera Irrigation District; Stone Corral Irrigation District; Florencio Ming-Ming; Ronald Davis, Intervenors-Appellees, United States of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Birmingham, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert L. Klarquist, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee.

Gregory K. Wilkinson, Best, Best & Krieger, Riverside, CA, Paul R. Minasian, Oroville, CA, for intervenors-appellees.

Before: REAVLEY, PREGERSON and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Westlands Water District (Westlands) and San Benito County Water District (San Benito) appeal a district court order dismissing their claims against the Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau), arising out of water allocations made by the Bureau during the 1992 California drought. While we do not find ourselves in complete agreement with all of the district court's analysis, we affirm the judgment.

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