North Coast Rivers Alliance v. United States Department of the Interior
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 NORTH COAST RIVERS ALLIANCE, et al., No. 1:16-cv-00307-DAD-SKO 11 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO
DISMISS FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF v. AS MOOT WITHOUT PREJUDICE AND GRANTING MOTION TO COMPEL
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE JOINDER OF ABSENT
14 INTERIOR, et al., CONTRACTORS 15 Defendants, (Doc. Nos. 130, 131)
16 WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, et al., 17 Intervenor-Defendants.
INTRODUCTION
As originally filed, this case concerned approval by the United States Department of the Interior
and its member agency, the United States Bureau of Reclamation (collectively, “Federal Defendants” or
“Reclamation”), of six interim renewal contracts that authorized delivery of water from March 1, 2016,
through February 28, 2018, from federal reclamation facilities to certain water districts served by the federal Central Valley Project (“CVP”) (“2016–18 Interim Contracts”). (Doc. No. 64, First Amended and…