NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL v. KEMPTHORNE

No. 1:05-CV-01207 OWW (TAG).

506 F.Supp.2d 322 (2007)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dirk KEMPTHORNE, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants, California Department of Water Resources, Defendant-Intervenor, State Water Contractors, Defendant-Intervenor, San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

May 25, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea Arnold Treece, Deborah S. Reames, Michael Ramsey Sherwood, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund Incorporated, Oakland, CA, Hamilton Candee, Katherine Scott Poole, Natural Resources Defense Council, Trent William Orr, Law Office of Trent W. Orr, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

James A. Maysonett, Keith W. Rizzardi, Department of Justice, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Daniel Joseph O'Hanlon, Clifford W. Schulz, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Jon David Rubin, Diepenbrock Harrison, Brenda Washington Davis, Christian Charles Scheuring, John Robert Hewitt, Ronda Azevedo Lucas, California Farm Bureau Federation, Deborah A. Wordham, California Attorney General's Office, Andrew Morrow Hitchings, Somach, Simmons & Dunn, Kevin M. O'Brien, Steven Paul Saxton, Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, CA, Christopher H. Buckley, Jr., Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, Washington, DC, Gregory K. Wilkinson, Anthony Leon Beaumon, Best Best & Krieger, LLP, Riverside, CA, Mark Diaz Servino, Best Best and Krieger LLP, Irvine, CA, Clifford Thomas Lee, California Attorney General's Office, San Francisco, CA, J. Mark Atlas, Frost Krup and Atlas, Willows, CA, for Defendants-Intervenors.


ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (DOC. 231/232)

OLIVER W. WANGER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case concerns the effect on a threatened species of fish, the Delta smelt (Hypomesus transpaeificus)1, of the coordinated operation of the federally-managed Central Valley Project ("CVP") and the State of California's State Water Project ("SWP...

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