Yurok Tribe v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 YUROK TRIBE, et al., Case No. 19-cv-04405-WHO

Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS' v. REQUEST TO LIFT STAY AND

MOTION FOR TMPORARY

U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, et al., RESTRAINING ORDER Defendants.

Plaintiffs the Yurok Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, and Institute for Fisheries Resources (collectively, “the Yurok Tribe”) seek to lift the stay of litigation to which the parties stipulated on March 27, 2020, asserting that defendants U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) (collectively, the “Bureau”) failed to comply with the terms of the stipulation. The Yurok Tribe also seeks a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) requesting that the Court order the Bureau to allocate an additional 16,000 acre-feet (“AF”) of water to the Environmental Water Account (“EWA”) for the purposes of Klamath River flows. The Klamath River basin is in the midst of severely…