California Court of Appeal

Sustaining of demurrers to a challenge to aspects of state board's decision approving transfer of 200,000 acre feet of water per year between real parties in interest is affirmed as parties added to petition through amendment were indispensable parties, and the statute of limitations had run.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2007
• Published 06/15/2007

Judges

• RAYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph Cordova, Jr., Imperial County Counsel, Joanne L. Yeager, El Centro;  Rossmann and Moore, Antonio Rossmann, San Francisco, Roger B. Moore and David R. Owen for Petitioner., Ralph Cordova, Jr., Imperial County Counsel, Joanne L. Yeager, El Centro;  Jackson DeMarco & Peckenpaugh, Michael L. Tidus, Alene M. Taber and Kathryn M. Casey, Irvine, for Imperial County Air Pollution Control District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Kurt R. Wiese, District Counsel;  Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, Ellen J. Garber, San Francisco, and David Nawi for South Coast Air Quality Management District as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Law Office of J. William Yeates, J. William Yeates, Sacramento, Mary U. Akens and Keith G. Wagner, Sacramento, for Planning and Conservation League, National Audubon Society and Defenders of Wildlife as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Matthew Goldman, Deputy Attorney General, Peter von Haam, Deputy Attorney General and Clifford T. Lee, Deputy Attorney General, for Real Party in Interest State Water Resources Control Board., Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, David L. Osias, Robert R. Barnes, Jeffrey R. Patterson, Mark J. Hattam, San Diego;  Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote and John Penn Carter, El Centro, for Real Party in Interest Imperial Irrigation District., Hatch & Parent, Lisabeth D. Rothman, Susannah M. Mitchell, Los Angeles;  and Daniel S. Hentschke, General Counsel, for Real Party in Interest San Diego County Water Authority., Jeffrey Kightlinger, Adam C. Kear;  and Linus Masouredis, Oakland, for Real Party in Interest The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California., Redwine and Sherrill, Gerald D. Shoaf, Steven B. Abbott;  Best, Best & Krieger, Michelle Ouellette and Megan K. Starr, Riverside, for Real Party in Interest Coachella Valley Water District.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.