PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S v. GLASER

No. 17-17130.

937 F.3d 1191 (2019)

PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATIONS; California Sportfishing Protection Alliance; Friends of the River; San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association, Inc.; The Institute for Fisheries Resources; Felix Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Donald R. GLASER, Regional Director of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; United States Bureau of Reclamation; San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 6, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephan C. Volker (argued), Alexis E. Krieg , Stephanie L. Clarke , and Jamey M.B. Volker , Law Offices of Stephan C. Volker, Berkeley, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Brian C. Toth (argued) and Martin F. McDermott , Attorneys; Eric Grant , Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General; United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; Amy L. Aufdemberge , Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees Donald R. Glaser and United States Bureau of Reclamation. Eric J. Buescher (argued), and Joseph W. Cotchett , Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP, Burlingame, California; Diane V. Rathmann , Linneman Law LLP, Dos Palos, California; for Defendant-Appellee San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and DOUGLAS L. RAYES, District Judge.


OPINION

California's Central Valley features some of the most fertile agricultural land in the United States, but it typically receives less rainfall than necessary to cultivate the crops grown in the Valley. To help address this problem, the federal government...

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