QUANTIFICATION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT CASES

Nos. C074592, C076747.

237 Cal.App.4th 72 (2015)

187 Cal. Rptr. 3d 669

QUANTIFICATION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT CASES.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

May 26, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Rood, County Counsel, Katherine Turner, Assistant County Counsel; Rossmann and Moore, Antonio Rossmann,   Roger B. Moore and Barton Lounsbury for Defendant and Appellant County of Imperial.

Michael L. Rood, County Counsel, Katherine Turner, Assistant County Counsel; Jackson DeMarco Tidus & Peckenpaugh, Michael L. Tidus,   Alene M. Taber and Kathryn M. Casey for Defendant and Appellant Imperial County Air Pollution Control District.

Sutherland & Gerber and Lowell F. Sutherland for Defendants and Appellants Donald V. Barioni,   Beach Line Citrus, Coast Imperial Partners, Chrisman B. Jackson,   Mary A. Jackson, as Trustees, June Jensen,   Patricia L. Vilven,   Charles H. Westmoreland,   Alexa Westmoreland, as Trustees, Betty Jo Young,   Frederick M. Young and Gina Nicole Young.

Rose M. Zoia for Defendants and Appellants Cuatro Del Mar and Protect Our Water and Environmental Rights.

Caryn Mandelbaum for Environment Now as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants County of Imperial and Protect Our Water and Environmental Rights.

Kurt R. Wiese and Barbara Baird for South Coast Air Quality Management District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant Imperial County Air Pollution Control District.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Ronald L. Olson,   Henry Weissmann, Matthew A. Macdonald,   Kristin Linsley Myles,   Joshua Patashnik; Law & Resource Planning Associates, Charles T. DuMars,   Patrick J. Redmond; and Joanna M. Smith for Plaintiff and Respondent Imperial Irrigation District.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Lisabeth D. Rothman,   Amy M. Steinfeld; and Daniel S. Hentschke for Defendant and Appellant San Diego County Water Authority.

Rutan & Tucker, Joel David Kuperberg and Michelle Molko for Defendant and Appellant Vista Irrigation District.

Donald R. Lincoln ; and Jeffrey R. Epp, City Attorney, for Defendant and Appellant City of Escondido.

Best Best & Krieger, Michelle Ouellette,   Melissa R. Cushman; Redwine and Sherrill, Steven B. Abbott,   Julianna K. Strong and Julianna K. Tillquist for Defendant and Appellant Coachella Valley Water District.

Marcia L. Scully,   John Schlotterbeck,   Adam Kear and Joseph Vanderhorst for Defendant and Appellant The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Robert S. Pelcyger for San Luis Rey Indian Water Authority as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Rovert W. Byrne, Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe,   Daniel Fuchs and Marc N. Melnick, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent State of California acting by and through the Department of Water Resources and the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Law Offices of Patrick J. Maloney, Patrick J. Maloney,   Thomas S. Virsik; Law Office of Cressey H. Nakagawa and Cressey H. Nakagawa for Defendants and Respondents Walter Holtz, Michael W. Morgan and John J. Elmore.


OPINION

With our apologies to T.S. Eliot, it appears that this is how more than a decade of contentious litigation over the quantification settlement agreement ends, "[n]ot with a bang, but a whimper,"1 as the County of Imperial (the County) and the Imperial County Air Pollution Control...

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