Hoopa Valley Tribe v. United States Bureau of Reclamation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HOOPA VALLEY TRIBE, Case No.: 1:20-cv-01814-JLT-EPG Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING RENEWED MOTION FOR
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
v. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF (Doc. 146) RELCAMATION, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 I. INTRODUCTION This lawsuit concerns a range of issues pertaining to the Trinity River Division of the federal Central Valley Project (“CVP”), including allegations that the United States Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”) and related federal entities and officials (collectively, “Federal Defendants”) violated various provisions of federal law by entering into certain contracts with water users for delivery of water from the CVP. (See Doc. 142 (second amended complaint (“SAC”)), ¶¶ 126–78.) Before the Court for decision is a motion for preliminary injunction that addresses only one aspect of this broader action: the adoption and implementation by Federal Defendants of a set of measures known as the Winter Flow Variability Project (“WFV Project”)…