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SIERRA CLUB v. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO

No. 96-50636.

112 F.3d 789 (1997)

SIERRA CLUB, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, et al., Defendants, NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES, Defendant-Appellee, v. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, San Antonio Water Systems, City of Hondo, Texas, On Its Behalf and All Other Municipal Industrial, Commercial, Domestic and Livestock Pumpers in Medina, City of Uvalde, Texas, On Its behalf and All Other Municipal, Industrial, Commercial, Domestic and Livestock Pumpers in Uvalde and Kinney Counties, City of Leon Valley, Texas, On Its Behalf and All Other Municipal, Domestic and Livestock Pumpers in Bexar and Atascosa Counties, Redland Stone Products Company, On Its Behalf and All Other Industrial and Commercial Pumpers, Southwest Research Institute, On Its Behalf and All Other Industrial and Commercial Pumpers in Bexar and Atascosa Counties, United Services Automobile Association, On Its Behalf and All Other Industrial and Commercial Pumpers in Bexar and Atascosa Counties, and Bexar Metropolitan Water District, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 30, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Nelson Henry, David O'Brien Frederick, Henry, Lowerre, Johnson, Hess and Frederick, Austin, TX, Renea W. Hicks, George, Donaldson & Ford, Austin, TX, for Sierra Club.

Elbert L. Hooper, Clinton Earl Jones, Hutcheson & Grundy, Austin, TX, for New Braunfels Utilities.

Russell S. Johnson, Wells, Pinckney & McHugh, San Antonio, TX, John A. Macleod, Luther Zeigler, Alexandre de Gramont, Steven P. Quarles, Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, Lenard Eric Friedland, Davidson & Troilo, San Antonio, TX, Vann Culp, Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Midland, TX, for City of San Antonio and San Antonio Water Systems.

Lloyd Garza, City Attorney's Office for the City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, for City of San Antonio.

Paul Bousquet, San Antonio Water System, San Antonio, TX, for San Antonio Water Systems.

David C. Shilton, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resource Division, Washington, DC, Robert L. Klarquist, J. Carol Williams, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Samuel Wilhelm Goodhope, Javier J. Aguilar, Harry G. Porter, III, Deborah Anne Verbil, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for State of Texas.

James K. Presnal, Presnal & Associates, Austin, TX, for Texas Association of Nurserymen, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Richard Clayton Trotter, Allan E. Parker, Texas Justice Foundation, San Antonio, TX, for John H. Shields, State Representative, Amicus Curiae.

Paul M. Terrill, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill and LaBoon, Austin, TX, for Farm Credit Bank of Texas and Farm Credit Property Rights Foundation, Amicus Curiae.

Stephen P. Allison, Charles William Shipman, Haynes & Boone, San Antonio, TX, for Redland Stone Products Co.

Louis S. Zimmerman, Marcy Hogan Greer, Bruce Allen Morris, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, TX, for Southwest Research Institute.

Michael E. Mears, Michael Jay Willson, Allen P. Beinke, Arter & Hadden, Dallas, TX, for United Services Auto. Assn.

Louis T. Rosenberg, North O. West, San Antonio, TX, for Bexar Metropolitan Water Dist.

Douglas G. Caroom, Sydney W. Falk, Jr., John H. Knox, Madison Jechow, Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan, Kever & McDaniel, Austin, TX, for City of Hondo, TX and City of Uvalde, TX.

Harvey L. Hardy, Adolph Darrel Jacobson, Hardy, Jacobson, Gazda & Jacobson, San Antonio, TX, for City of Leon Valley, TX.

Before REAVLEY, GARWOOD and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is taken from a preliminary injunction entered by the district court to regulate the withdrawal of water from the Edwards Aquifer, a large underground reservoir supplying water to central Texas. Because we hold that the Sierra Club did not establish a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, in light of the abstention doctrine enunciated in Burford v. Sun Oil Co.,1 we vacate the injunction...

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