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COLORADO RIVER INDIAN TRIBES v. MARSH

No. CV 82-5017-RMT(JRx).

605 F.Supp. 1425 (1985)

COLORADO RIVER INDIAN TRIBES, an Indian tribe; Sierra Club, a non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs, v. John O. MARSH, Jr., Secretary of the Army; Lieutenant J.K. Bratton, Chief of Engineers, Corps of Engineers, United States Army; Colonel Paul W. Taylor, District Engineer, Los Angeles District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers; James Watt, Secretary of the Department of the Interior; Robert F. Burford, Director of the Bureau of Land Management; Ed Hastey, Director of the California State Office of the Bureau of Land Management; Dean Bibles, Director of the Arizona State Office of the Bureau of Land Management; Gary McVicker, Head of the Yuma District Office of the Bureau of Land Management; River City Development Co., a limited partnership, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

March 20, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark I. Weinberger, Alletta D'A. Belin, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Steven J. Bloxham, Tribal Atty., Pamela S. Williams, Associate Tribal Atty., Colorado River Indian Tribes, Parker, Ariz., for Colorado River Indian Tribes.

Laurens H. Silver, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., for Sierra Club.

Paul B. Witmer, Jr., Paul B. Witmer, Jr., Prof. Corp., Santa Ana, Cal., for defendant River City Development Co.

Alexander H. Williams, III, U.S. Atty., Frederick M. Brosio, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Chief, Civil Div., Ian Fan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for Federal defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TAKASUGI, District Judge.

The Colorado River Indian Tribes ("Tribes") and the Sierra Club (jointly "plaintiffs") have filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief and petition for writ of mandamus against the heads of a number of federal agencies (collectively "Federal Defendants"), heads of state agencies, and River City Development Co. ("Developer") (jointly "defendants"). The prayer seeks a declaration that the defendants...

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