Westlands Water District v. United States of America U.S. Department of Interior v. Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., Applicant for Intervention-Appellant

700 F.2d 561 WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America; U.S. Department of Interior, et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC., Applicant for Intervention-Appellant. No. 81-4500. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 11, 1983. Decided March 1, 1983. Thomas Graff, Patricia Wells, Berkeley, Cal., for applicant for intervention-appellant. Adolph Moskovitz, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, Cal., Anne S. Almy, David Shilton, Washington, D.C., David Shilton, Land & Natural Res. Div., Washington, D.C., for appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Before MERRILL, WRIGHT and CHOY, Circuit Judges. MERRILL, Circuit Judge: 1 The Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. ("EDF") appeals from the denial of its application for intervention as of right under Rule 24(a), F.R.Civ.P., and for permissive intervention under Rule 24(b). 1 EDF sought to intervene in an action for declaratory and injunctive relief brought by Westlands Water District ("Westlands") against the United States, the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of…