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WESTLAND WATER DIST. v. U.S.

No. CVF945217 OWWDLB.

153 F.Supp.2d 1133 (2001)

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT and San Benito County Water District, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation; Kirk C. Rodgers, Acting Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region, United States of America, Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation; Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of Interior; Defendants. San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority; Friant Power Authority, Defendants-in-Intervention. Friant Water Users Authority; Orange Cove Irrigation District; Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District; and Terra Bella Irrigation District; Chowchilla Water District; Madera Irrigation District Defendants-in-Intervention.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

June 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J O'Hanlon, Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann and Girard, Sacramento, CA, for Westlands Water Dist.

William Thomas Chisum, Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann and Girard, Sacramento, CA, for San Benito County Water Dist.

Maria A. Iizuka, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Env. and Natural Resources Div., Sacramento, CA, for U.S., Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Bruce Babbitt, Gale Norton.

Michael Victor Sexton, Minasian Spruance Baber Meith Soares and Sexton, Oroville, CA, for San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority, Friant Power Authority.

Gregory K Wilkinson, Best Best and Krieger, Riverside CA, for Friant Water Users Authority.

Benslow B Green, Green Green and Rigby, Madera, CA, for Chowchilla Water Dist., Madera Irrigation.

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

WANGER, District Judge.

Before the court are the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment, which seek to determine the relative rights to water from a federal reclamation project, under three separate contracts with the United States, executed: (1) with plaintiff Westlands Water District ("Westlands") in 1963 ("1963 Contract"); (2) with plaintiff San Benito County Water District ("San...

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