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FIREBAUGH CANAL WATER DIST. v. U.S.

No. 11-17715.

712 F.3d 1296 (2013)

FIREBAUGH CANAL WATER DISTRICT; Central California Irrigation District, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Department of Interior; Bureau of Reclamation; Kenneth Lee Salazar; Westlands Water District; Panoche Water District; Broadview Water District; San Luis Water District, Defendants-Appellees, Natural Resources Defense Council; The Bay Institute; Contra Costa County; Contra Costa Water Agency, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 5, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Minasian , Minasian, Meith, Soares, Sexton & Cooper, LLP, Oroville, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Brian C. Toth , United States Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; Daniel J. O'Hanlon and Eric N. Robinson , Kronick, Moskovtiz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Hamilton Candee , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA; Katherine Poole , Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA; Laurens H. Silver , California Environmental Law Project, Mill Valley, CA, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

Before: STEPHEN S. TROTT and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and FREDERIC BLOCK, District Judge.

OPINION

BLOCK, District Judge:

The Central Valley Project ("CVP") is a massive undertaking to transfer water from the northern part of California's Central Valley to the relatively arid southern part of the valley. The project is managed by the United States Department of the Interior ("Interior").

Interior's management of the CVP has been the subject of much litigation. Here, we address the claim of the Firebaugh Canal Water District and the Central...

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