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WESTLANDS WATER DIST. v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. CV-F-92-5212 OWW.

805 F.Supp. 1503 (1992)

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT; San Benito Water District, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, DEPARTMENT of INTERIOR, BUREAU of RECLAMATION; Roger K. Patterson, Regional Director Mid-Pacific Region, United States of America, Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Defendants, Friant Water Users Authority; the City of Fresno; Madera Irrigation District; City of Orange Cove; Stone Corral Irrigation District; Florencio Ming-Ming; and Ronald Davis; and Firebaugh Canal Water District; Central California Irrigation District; San Luis Canal Company; Columbia Canal Company; and Friant Power Authority, Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

November 4, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas William Birmingham, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Michael A. Gheleta, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Res. Div., Sacramento, Cal., Michael Victor Sexton, Minasian, Minasian, Minasian, Spruance, Baber, Meith & Soares, Oroville, Cal., Gregory K. Wilkinson, Best, Best & Krieger, Riverside, Cal., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WANGER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Westlands Water District and San Benito County Water District seek injunctive and declaratory relief in this dispute over water allocations made by the Bureau of Reclamation ("Bureau") during the late winter of 1991 and spring of 1992, the sixth consecutive drought year in California. The relief sought cannot be granted under the allegations of the complaint or any variation which plaintiffs could allege...

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