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WESTLANDS WATER DIST. v. U.S.

No. 01-16987.

337 F.3d 1092 (2003)

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT; San Benito Water District, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Department of Interior; Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of Interior; Kirk C. Rodgers, Acting Regional Director; Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority; Friant Power Authority; Friant Water Users Authority; Chowchilla Water District; Madera Irrigation, Defendant-Intervenors-Appellees, v. Roger K. Patterson, Regional Director of Mid Pacific Region; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Lester Snow, Acting Regional Director, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 31, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Chisum and Daniel J. O'Hanlon, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, and Thomas W. Birmingham for plaintiffs-appellants Westlands Water District and San Benito Water District.

Todd Aagaard for defendant-appellee United States of America.

Maria A. Iizuka for defendants-appellees Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, and Secretary of the Interior.

Michael V. Sexton, Minasian, Spruance, Baber, Meith, Soares, & Sexton, for defendant-intervenors San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority and Friant Power Authority.

Gregory K. Wilkinson, Best, Best, & Krieger, for defendant-intervenor Friant Water Users Authority.

Michael A. Campos, Washburn, Briscoe, & McCarthy, for defendant-intervenor, Madera Irrigation District.

Denslow Green, Green, Green & Rigby, for defendant-intervenor, Chowchilla Water District.

Before B. FLETCHER, RAWLINSON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.

This action arises out of water allocations during water year 1994 in the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project, a federal water management project. Plaintiffs-appellants Westlands Water District ("Westlands") and San Benito County Water District ("San Benito") appeal the district court's order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants and defendant-intervenors concerning the United States Department...

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