ANTELOPE VALLEY GROUNDWATER CASES

No. F082492.

63 Cal.App.5th 17 (2021)

277 Cal. Rptr. 3d 419

ANTELOPE VALLEY GROUNDWATER CASES. LOS ANGELES COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICT NO. 40 et al., Cross-complainants and Respondents, v. CHARLES TAPIA, Individually and as Trustee, etc., et al., Cross-defendants and Appellants; ANTELOPE VALLEY-EAST KERN WATER AGENCY, Cross-defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent; U.S. BORAX INC. et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents. [And seven other cases.]

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

March 16, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Robert H. Brumfield and Robert H. Brumfield III for Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Mary Wickham , County Counsel, Warren R. Wellen , Deputy County Counsel; Best Best & Krieger, Eric L. Garner , Jeffrey V. Dunn , Wendy Y. Wang ; Lagerlof, Thomas Bunn III ; Murphy & Evertz, Douglas J. Evertz ; Olivarez Madruga Lemieux O'Neill, W. Keith Lemieux and Lynne Patrice McGhee for Cross-complainants and Respondents.

Richards, Watson & Gershon, James L. Markman and B. Tilden Kim for Cross-defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Venable, William M. Sloan , Tyler G. Welti ; Ellison, Schneider, Harris & Donlan, Christopher M. Sanders ; Kuhs & Parker, Robert G. Kuhs , Bernard C. Barmann, Jr. ; Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Eric N. Robinson , Stanley C. Powell ; Michael N. Feuer , Los Angeles City Attorney, Joseph Brajevich , Raymond Ilgunas ; Law Office of LeBeau Thelen, Bob H. Joyce ; Zimmer & Melton and Richard Zimmer for Cross-defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

In 1999, the first lawsuits were filed in what ultimately evolved into this proceeding known as the Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases (AVGC). The AVGC proceeding litigated whether the water supply from natural and imported sources, which replenished an alluvial basin from which numerous parties pumped...

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