• San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. United States

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Date Filed: 2012-03-02
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Oliver W. Wanger, United States District Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and George H. Wu, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Birmingham, Fresno, California; and Daniel J. O?Hanlon and Andrew P. Tauriainen, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Cynthia L. Koehler, Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, California; and Paul A. Peters, Hines & Thomas, San Francisco, California; and Katherine S. Poole and Jason Malinsky, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.
    for defendant: Kevin Tanaka, Department of the Interior, Office of Regional Solicitor, Sacramento, California; and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, and Charles Shockley, Andrew C. Mer gen and David S. Shelton, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

    Case Number: No. 09-17594

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 2570 SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA WATER AUTHORITY; WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and p