KLAMATH WATER USERS PROTECTIVE ASS'N v. PATTERSON

No. 98-35708.

204 F.3d 1206 (1999)

KLAMATH WATER USERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION; Klamath Drainage District; Sam Henzel; Henzel Properties, Ltd., Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellants, v. Roger PATTERSON, Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; Karl E. Wirkus, Area Manager, Klamath Irrigation Project, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; Eluid Martinez, Commissioner of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior; Patricia Beneke, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; The United States Bureau of Reclamation; United States of America, Defendants-Appellees, and PacifiCorp, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee, and Northcoast Environmental Center; Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermens Association; Institute for Fisheries Resources; Klamath Forest Alliance; Mazamas; Oregon Natural Resources Center; The Wilderness Society; Waterwatch of Oregon; Yurok Tribe, Defendant-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 9, 1999.

Amended January 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul S. Simmons, De Cuir & Somach, PC, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellants.

Jeffrey C. Dobbins, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees.

Richard S. Gleason, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, Oregon, for the defendant-counter-claimant-appellee.

Richard A. Cross, Alexander & Karshmer, Berkeley, California, for defendant-intervener-appellee Yurok Tribe.

Michael R. Sherwood, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, California, for environmental defendant-intervenors-appellees Northcoast Environmental Center et al.

Before: FLETCHER, FERGUSON, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

The opinion filed September 9, 1999, is amending by adding a new footnote 3 at the end of Part II.B.3, slip op. at 11169, 191 F.3d at 1123, as follows:

3. An adjudication of all of the rights to the use of the surface waters of the Klamath River Basin ("Basin"), within the State of Oregon, is now pending in state court. See United States v. Oregon, 44 F.3d 758 (9th Cir.1994). That is a comprehensive water rights adjudication contemplated by...

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