Madera Irrigation District v. Hancock

985 F.2d 1397 23 Envtl. L. Rep. 20 ,579 MADERA IRRIGATION DISTRICT, Plaintiff-Appellant, Natural Resources Defense Council, et al., Intervenors-Appellees, and Chowchilla Water District, Plaintiff, v. Lawrence F. HANCOCK, as Regional Director of the Mid-Pacific Region of the United States Bureau of Reclamation; Dennis Underwood, as Commissioner of Reclamation, United States Department of the Interior, and; Manuel Lujan, Jr., as Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America, Defendants-Appellees. No. 91-16013. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 8, 1992. Decided Feb. 2, 1993. As Amended March 8, 1993. Denslow Green, Green, Green and Rigby, Madera, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Madera Irr. Dist. Robert L. Klarquist, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees Lawrence F. Hancock, et al. Brian E. Gray, San Francisco, CA, for intervenors-appellees Natural Resources Defense Council, et al. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Before: ALARCON, HALL, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge: 1 Madera Irrigation District sued for a declaratory judgment and…