IN RE DELTA SMELT CONSOLIDATED CASES

No. 1:09-CV-407 OWW DLB.

663 F.Supp.2d 922 (2009)

In re DELTA SMELT CONSOLIDATED CASES. San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, et al. v. Salazar, et al. (1:09-cv-407 OWW DLB). State Water Contractors v. Salazar, et al. (1:09-cv-422 OWW GSA). Coalition for A Sustainable Delta, et al. v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. (1:09-cv-480 OWW GSA). Metropolitan Water District v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al. (1:09-cv-631 OWW DLB). Stewart & Jasper Orchards et al. v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (1:09-cv-892 OWW DLB).

United States District Court, E.D. California.

October 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher J. Carr, Edgar B. Washburn, William M. Sloan, Morrison and Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Daniel Joseph O'Hanlon, Hanspeter Walter, William Thomas Chisum, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Eileen M. Diepenbrock, Jon David Rubin, Jonathan R. Marz, Diepenbrock Harrison, Brandon Murray Middleton, Damien Michael Schiff, James S. Burling, M. Reed Hopper, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, Gregory K. Wilkinson, Steven M. Anderson, Best Best & Krieger, LLP, Riverside, CA, Corinne Fratini, Morrison & Forerster, LLP, Walnut Creek, CA, Audrey M. Huang, Paul S. Weiland, John J. Flynn, III, Robert C. Horton, Nossaman LLP, Irvine, CA, for San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, et al.

James A. Maysonett, Department of Justice, Ethan Carson Eddy, Govt., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Wildlife & Marine Resources Section, Washington, DC, Jonathan R. Marz, Diepenbrock Harrison, William James Shapiro, United States Department of Justice, Brenda Washington Davis, The Brenda Davis Law Group, Sacramento, CA, Allison Ernestine Goldsmith, Cecilia Louise Dennis, Clifford Thomas Lee, California Attorney General's Office, Michael M. Edson, California Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA, for Salazar, et al.


MEMORANDUM DECISION RE CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT RE COMMERCE CLAUSE (Docs. 233 & 288).

OLIVER W. WANGER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case concerns the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's ("FWS") December 15, 2008 biological opinion ("BiOp" or "2008 BiOp") concerning the impact of coordinated operations of the Central Valley Project ("CVP") and State Water Project ("SWP") on the threatened delta smelt, prepared...

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