CALIFORNIA WATER CURTAILMENT CASES

No. H047270.

83 Cal.App.5th 164 (2022)

CALIFORNIA WATER CURTAILMENT CASES.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

As modified September 29, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rob Bonta , Attorney General, Robert W. Byrne , Assistant Attorney General, Tracy L. Winsor , Allison Goldsmith , Kate D. Fritz and Matthew G. Bullock , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant State Water Resources Control Board.

Rob Bonta , Attorney General, Robert W. Byrne , Assistant Attorney General, Laura J. Zuckerman , Russell B. Hildreth and Carolyn Nelson Rowan , Deputy Attorneys General, for Intervener and Appellant Department of Water Resources.

Environmental Law Clinic, Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School, Deborah A. Sivas , Matthew J. Sanders and Stephanie L. Safdi as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant State Water Resources Control Board.

Somach Simmons & Dunn, Michael E. Vergara , Theresa C. Barfield and Alyson E. Ackerman for Plaintiff and Respondent Byron-Bethany Irrigation District.

Nomellini Grilli & McDaniel, Dante John Nomellini, Sr. , Dante John Nomellini, Jr. , Daniel Allen McDaniel ; Spaletta Law and Jennifer L. Spaletta for Plaintiff and Respondent Central Delta Water Agency.

Herum\Crabtree\Suntag, Steven A. Herum , Jeanne M. Zolezzi and Lilliana Freeman for Plaintiffs and Respondents Patterson Irrigation District and Banta Carbona Irrigation District.

Paris, Kincaid & Wasiewski, Valerie C. Kincaid and Timothy J. Wasiewski for Plaintiffs and Respondents San Joaquin Tributaries Authority and South San Joaquin Irrigation District.

Mohan, Harris, Ruiz, Wortmann, Perisho & Rubino, S. Dean Ruiz ; and John Henry Herrick for Plaintiff and Respondent South Delta Water Agency.

Tim O'Laughlin and Tim O'Laughlin for Plaintiff and Respondent Oakdale Irrigation District.


OPINION

We decide an appeal arising from the state's efforts in 2015 to curtail water use in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta1 during a severe, multiyear drought.

Appellant State Water Resources Control Board (the Board) appeals from a judgment issuing peremptory writs of mandate...

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