WESTLANDS WATER DIST. v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. CV-F-93-5327 OWW SSH.

850 F.Supp. 1388 (1994)

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, San Benito Water District, San Luis Water District, and Panoche Water District, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION; United States of America, Dept. of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service; Roland H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California, Fresno Division.

March 3, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Birmingham, Sacramento, CA, Jess P. Telles, Dos Palos, CA, for plaintiffs.

Gary Sawyers, Bolen, Fransen & Boostrom, Fresno, CA, John L. Marshall, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Laurens H. Silver, Michael Sherwood, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, CA, Lori Potter, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Denver, CO, Virginia S. Albrecht, Daniel O'Hanlon, Beveridge and Diamond, San Francisco, CA, Daniel M. Dooley, Kenneth A. Kuney, Dooley & Herr, Visalia, CA, Richard M. Archbold, Jeanne M. Zolezzi, Neumiller & Beardslee, Stockton, CA, William Smiland, Theodore A. Chester, Jr., Christopher G. Foster, Donnelly Clark Chase & Smiland, Los Angeles, CA, Hamilton Candee, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, Brian E. Gray, San Francisco, CA, Clifford W. Schulz, Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, CA, Gregory K. Wilkinson, Dennis M. Cota, Janice L. Weis, Best Best & Krieger, Riverside, CA, Denslow B. Green, Green Green & Rigby, Madera, CA, Mollie Beattie, Director, Dept. of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC, Maria A. Iizuka, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Sacramento, CA, John Clark, Phil Atkins-Pattenson, Pettit and Martin, San Francisco, CA, John Krautkraemer, Environmental Defense Fund, Oakland, CA, Diane Rathman, Jess P. Telles, Jr., Linneman Burgess Telles Vanatta & Vierra, Dos Palos, CA, Michael V. Sexton, Minasian, Minasian, Minasian, Spruance, Baber, Meith & Soares, Oroville, CA, Ernest Conant, Scott Kuney, Young Woodridge, Paulden Self & Farr, Bakersfield, CA, Janet Reno, U.S. Atty. Gen., Washington, DC, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER RE: DEFENDANTS AND DEFENDANTS-IN-INTERVENTION MOTIONS TO DISMISS

WANGER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case is before the court on motions of the Defendants, U.S.A., Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Service, Roland H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce, and Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior ("Federal Defendants") and Defendants-in...

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