Hoopa Valley Tribe v. United States Bureau of Reclamation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
HOOPA VALLEY TRIBE, Case No.: 1:20-cv-01814-JLT-EPG
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO STAY
BRIEFING ON MOTION FOR
v.
SUMMARY JUDGMENT
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RELCAMATION, et al., (Doc. 168) 15 Defendants.
INTRODUCTION
This is a highly complex case addressing a range of issues pertaining to the Trinity River
Division of the federal Central Valley Project (“CVP”). The claims brought by the Hoopa Valley Tribe
(“Plaintiff”) include 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.) The SAC is 65 pages long, with more than 650 pages of attachments, and contains ten causes of action. (See generally SAC.) The undersigned…