Kern County Farm Bureau v. Allen

450 F.3d 1072 KERN COUNTY FARM BUREAU; Kern County Water Agency; North Kern County Water Storage District; Coalition of Private Property Rights; Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District; Semitropic Water Storage District; Wheeler Ridge Maricopa Water Storage District; County of Kern, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dave ALLEN, Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 1; Steven A. Williams, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees, and Center for Biological Diversity, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee. No. 04-15540. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 16, 2006. Filed June 20, 2006. Robert D. Thornton, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Irvine, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Matthew J. Sanders, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees. Matt Kenna, Western Environmental Law Center, Durango, CO, for the intervenor-defendant-appellee. M. Reed Hopper, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for amicus…