CITY OF BARSTOW v. MOJAVE WATER AGENCY

No. S071728.

99 Cal.Rptr.2d 294 (2000)

23 Cal.4th 1224

5 P.3d 853

CITY OF BARSTOW et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. MOJAVE WATER AGENCY et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents; Jess Ranch Water Company, Cross-defendant and Appellant. Mojave Water Agency et al., Cross-complainants and Respondents, v. Manuel Cardozo et al., Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

Rehearing Denied October 25, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Covington & Crowe, Robert E. Dougherty and Eric S. Vail, Ontario, for Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.

Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Thomas W. Birmingham, Janet K. Goldsmith, Sacramento, and Jon D. Rubin, for Westlands Water District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.

Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, Kevin M. O'Brien, Steven P. Saxton, David R.E. Aladjem and Gwyn-Mohr P. Tully, for Northern California Water Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.

M. David Stirling, Robin L. Rivett, Sacramento, and David E. Haddock, for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.

De Cuir & Somach, Stuart L. Somach and Elizabeth W. Johnson, Sacramento, for Cities of Fairfield, Vacaville and Vallejo as Amici Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.

Lemieux & O'Neill and Wayne K. Lemieux, Westlake Village, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.

Gutierrez & Preciado, Gutierrez, Preciado & House, Calvin House and Clifton A. Baker, Pasadena, for Cross-defendant and Appellant Jess Ranch Water Company.

Gary A. Ledford as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al. and Jess Ranch Water Company.

McCormick, Kidman & Behrens, Arthur G. Kidman, David D. Boyer and Bradley D. Pierce, Costa Mesa, for Plaintiffs and Respondents City of Barstow and Southern California Water Company.

Hatch and Parent, Scott S. Slater, Robert J. Saperstein, Stephanie C. Osier, Santa Barbara, and Kristen T. Derscheid, for California Water Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents City of Barstow and Southern California Water Company.

Brunick, Alvarez & Battersby, William J. Brunick, Amy Greyson, San Bernardino, Jeffery L. Caulfield and Mark C. Potter, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent and for Cross-complainant and Respondent Mojave Water Agency.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Charles W. Getz IV, Assistant Attorney General, and Marilyn H. Levin, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent and for Cross-complainant and Respondent California Department of Fish and Game.

Alan K. Marks, County Counsel, Thomas L. Krahelski and Paul M. St. John, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents and for Cross-complainants and Respondents Baldy Mesa Water District, Juniper Riviera County Water District, San Bernardino County Daggett Airport and San Bernardino County Service Areas 29, 42, 64, 70C, 70G, 70J and 70L.

Boyd, Hill, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Frederic A. Fudacz and John Ossiff, Los Angeles, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent and for Cross-complainant and Respondent Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company.

Monteleone & McCrory and Thomas P. McGuire, Los Angeles, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents and for Cross-complainants and Respondents Victor Valley Water District and City of Victorville.

Best, Best & Krieger, Eric L. Garner and Arthur L. Littleworth, Riverside, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent and for Cross-complainant and Respondent Rancho Las Flores Limited Partnership.

Therese Exline Parker, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents and for Cross-complainants and Respondents Alfredo Arguelles, Richard F. Barak, Charles Bell, Lillian Borgogno, John Thomas Carter, Marshall Chuang, George Ronald Dahlquist, Alan DeJong, Frank T. Duran, Trinidad L. Gaeta, Wayne D. Gesiriech, S. Harold Gold, Ciril Gomez Living Trust, Daniel C. Gray, Karen Gray, Nick Grill, Merlin Gulbranson Excavating, Scott Hert, Melvin Hill, John Hosking, Jean Hosking, Larry Johnson, Hoon Ho Kim, H. Leslie Levin, J. Peter Lounsbury, Ken Luth, The 160 Newberry Ranch Limited Partnership, Meadowbrook Dairy, Newberry Ranch, George Parker, Ruth Parker, Trinidad Perez, Daniel Pettigrew, Howard Pettigrew, John S. Pettis, Joan C. Randolph, Bill Resseque, Charles Short, Robert A. Smith, Wayne A. Soppeland, Stanley Stewart, Patricia Stewart, Edward W. Stringer, Thomas Taylor, Carole Taylor, Dale Thomas Ronald Thomas, James A. Thompson, Cornelius Van Diest, Van Leuwen Family Trust, Albert H. Vogler, Ykema Trust, Ykema Harmsen Dairy, Keith Young and Margie Young.

Redwine and Sherrill and Steven B. Abbott, Riverside, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents and for Cross-complainants and Respondents Lake Arrowhead Community Services District, Southdown, Inc., and Jean D. DeBlasis as Trustee of the Kemper Campbell Ranch Trust.

Gresham, Savage, Nolan & Tilden and Michael Duane Davis, San Bernardino, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents and for Cross-complainants and Respondents Baldy Mesa Water District, Silver Lakes Association and Mitsubishi Cement Corporation.

Markman, Arczynski, Hanson, Curley & Slough, Brea, Richards, Watson & Gershon, James L. Markman, Los Angeles, and Boyd L. Hill, Irvine, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent and for Cross-complainant and Respondent Hesperia Water District.

Nino J. Mascolo and Douglas P. Ditonto, Rosemead, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent and for Cross-complainant and Respondent Southern California Edison Company.

Morrison & Foerster, Kevin T. Haroff, Palto Alto, and Kimberly McMorrow, for Santa Clara Valley Water District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents and Cross-complainants and Respondents Mojave Water Agency et al.

Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote, John Penn Carter, El Centro and Paul D. Engstrand, for Imperial Irrigation District as Amicus Curiae.

Nancy N. McDonough, Sacramento, and David J. Guy, for California Farm Bureau Federation as Amicus Curiae.

Boyd, Hill, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Frederic A. Fudacz and John Ossiff, Los Angeles, for Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster and Raymond Basin Management Board as Amici Curiae.

Louise Renne, City Attorney (San Francisco), Vicki Clayton and Donn W. Furman, Deputy City Attorneys; Ellison & Schneider, Anne J. Schneider, Sacramento, and Barbara A. Brenner, for City and County of San Francisco as Amicus Curiae.

O'Laughlin & Paris and Tim O'Laughlin, for San Joaquin Tributaries Association as Amicus Curiae.

Minasian, Spruance, Baber, Meith, Soares & Sexton, Oroville, for San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority as Amicus Curiae.


CHIN, J.

I. Introduction

We granted review to determine whether a trial court may definitively resolve water right priorities in an overdrafted basin with a "physical solution" that relies on the equitable apportionment doctrine but does not consider the affected owners' legal water rights in the basin.1 We conclude it may not, and affirm the Court of Appeal judgment in that respect. In the second part of this opinion, we address...

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