COUNTY OF AMADOR v. EL DORADO COUNTY WATER AGENCY

No. C027948.

91 Cal.Rptr.2d 66 (1999)

76 Cal.App.4th 931

COUNTY OF AMADOR, Plaintiff, v. EL DORADO COUNTY WATER AGENCY et al., Defendants; Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Real Party in Interest. Boyd Gibbons, as Director, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. El Dorado County Water Agency et al., Defendants and Appellants; Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Real Party in Interest and Respondent. League to Save Sierra Lakes, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. El Dorado County Water Agency et al., Defendants and Appellants; Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

Rehearing Denied December 1, 1999.

Review Denied February 16, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noble Sprunger and Philip H. Weber, Placerville, for Defendant and Appellant El Dorado Irrigation District.

Louis B. Green, County Counsel, Thomas D. Cumpson, Deputy County Counsel, Remy, Thomas and Moose, James G. Moose, John H. Mattox, Sacramento, and Erik K. Spiess, for Defendant and Appellant El Dorado County Water Agency.

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, Roderick E. Walston and Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Charles W. Getz IV, Assistant Attorney General and Ellen M. Peter, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent Department of Fish and Game.

Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund and Stephan C. Volker, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Respondent League to Save Sierra Lakes.

No appearance for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


HULL, J.

Under the best of circumstances, cases involving the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) are complicated. Legal questions resist easy resolution, and records are voluminous. That is particularly true when cases involve crucial matters such as population growth, increased demands for water, and the threatened degradation of natural resources. If a case also involves procedural anomalies, matters become that much more difficult.

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