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ORFF v. U.S.

No. 00-16922.

358 F.3d 1137 (2004)

Francis A. ORFF; Brooks Farms II; Brooks Farms IV; Brooks Farms V; G.S. Farms; Five-D Westside Farms, Inc.; R & S Farming; Cardella Ranch; Gramis Family Farms II; Edwin R. O'Neill, Bro Partnership; BTO Partnership; EJC Partnership; ERO Partnership; JEO Partnership; SLO Partnership; TBO Partnership; C.S. Stefanopoulos Trust; Elena Stefanopoulos Trust; Estate of Helen Stefanopoulos; D.D. Stefanopoulos Trust; Pagona Stefanopoulos; Sumner Peck Ranch, Inc.; Y. Stephen Pilibos; Pilibos Children's Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Westlands Water District, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of the Interior; Bureau of Reclamation; Fish and Wildlife Service; United States Department of Commerce; National Marine Fisheries Service; Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Natural Resources Defense Council; United Anglers of California; Save San Francisco Bay Association; California Waterfowl Association; Sierra Club; Bay Institute of San Francisco; Environmental Defense Fund; California Striped Bass Association; Trout Unlimited of California; Sacramento River Council; California Sportfishing Protection Alliance; Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations; The Wilderness Society, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 18, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Smiland (argued) and Theodore A. Chester, Jr., Smiland & Khachigian, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants Francis A. Orff, et al.

Janet K. Goldsmith, William T. Chisum and J. Port Telles, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, CA; and Stuart L. Somach (argued), Somach Simmons & Dunn, Sacramento, CA, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant Westlands Water District.

Maria A. Iizuka and Todd S. Aagaard (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees United States of America, et al.

Hamilton Candee and Michael E. Wall (argued), Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA; and Philip F. Atkins-Pattenson, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-intervenors-appellees Natural Resources Defense Council, et al.

Before: NOONAN, THOMAS and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Clifton.

OPINION

CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal poses the issue of whether sovereign immunity bars individual landowners and water users (collectively, "the farmers") of the Westlands Water District ("Westlands") from suing the United States for allegedly having violated a contract the United States entered into with Westlands for the delivery of water. The district court originally...

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