United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-agency in a suit claiming that the agency was violating the Central Valley Improvement Act in its operation of a federal water management project is affirmed where there was no genuine issue of material fact as to whether the agency would comply with a particular water salinity standard in the foreseeable future.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2006
• Decided 05/22/2006
• Published 05/22/2006

Judges

• Before WARREN J. FERGUSON, STEPHEN S. TROTT, and ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel A. McDaniel, Nomellini, Grilli & McDaniel Professional Law Corporations, Stockton, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David C. Shilton, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., Tim O'Laughlin and William C. Paris, III, O'Laughlin & Paris LLP, Chico, CA, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.