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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 16:1538 Endangered Species Act

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800475.1 

-1- Joint Stipulation Settling Claims for Attorneys Fees and 

Costs Related to First Claim and [Proposed] Order 

DANIEL J. O’HANLON, State Bar No. 122380 

JON D. RUBIN, State Bar No. 196944 

ANDREW P. TAURIAINEN, State Bar No. 214837 

KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, 27th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4416 

Telephone: (916) 321-4500 

Facsimile: (916) 321-4555 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs SAN LUIS & DELTAMENDOTA WATER AUTHORITY and 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA 

WATER AUTHORITY and 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE 

INTERIOR; GALE A. NORTON, as 

Secretary of the U.S. Department of the 

Interior; U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE 

SERVICE; STEVE WILLIAMS, as 

Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. 

Department of the Interior; STEVE 

THOMPSON, as Operations Manager, 

California/Nevada Operations Office, 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region, 

U.S. Department of the Interior; ANNE 

BADGLEY, as Regional Director, Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region, 

U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Defendants, 

NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE 

COUNCIL, et al., 

Intervenor-Defendants. 

CASE NO. CIV F-02-6461 OWW DLB 

JOINT STIPULATION SETTLING 

CLAIMS FOR ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND 

COSTS RELATED TO FIRST CLAIM AND 

ORDER 

Plaintiffs San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water 

District (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) and Federal Defendants United States Department of the 

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-2- Joint Stipulation Settling Claims for Attorneys Fees and 

Costs Related to First Claim and [Proposed] Order 

Interior; Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior; United States Fish and Wildlife Service (the 

“Service” or “FWS”); Steve Williams, Director, FWS; Steve Thompson, Operations Manager, 

California/Nevada Operations Office, FWS; and Anne Badgley, Regional Director, FWS 

(collectively, “Federal Defendants”), by and through their undersigned counsel, say as follows: 

WHEREAS, on November 22, 2002, Plaintiffs filed a complaint initiating the 

present action; 

WHEREAS, the First Claim in Plaintiffs’ complaint alleged that the Service had 

failed to conduct a five-year review of the listing status of the delta smelt, a fish, as required by 

Section 4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”); 

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs’ First Claim was resolved on June 19, 2003 when the Court 

entered a stipulated settlement agreement (the “Agreement”) submitted by the parties; 

WHEREAS, under § 7 of that Agreement, Federal Defendants agreed to pay the 

“reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs” attributable to Plaintiffs’ First Claim for relief; 

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs have now presented Federal Defendants with a claim for 

attorneys’ fees and costs attributable to their First Claim for relief in this matter; 

WHEREAS, the parties agree that it is in the interest of the parties and judicial 

economy to settle this claim for attorneys’ fees and costs without protracted litigation; and, 

WHEREAS, the parties enter this Stipulation without any admission of fact or law, 

or waiver of any claims or defenses, factual or legal. 

NOW, THEREFORE, Plaintiffs and Federal Defendants hereby Stipulate and 

Agree as follows: 

1. Federal Defendants agree to settle Plaintiffs’ claim for the costs and 

attorneys’ fees attributable to Plaintiffs’ First Claim for relief in this matter for a total of $22,000. 

Payment will be made by wire transfer pursuant to instructions to be provided by Plaintiffs. 

2. Federal Defendants agree to submit all necessary paperwork to the 

Department of the Treasury’s Judgment Fund Office pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 1540(g)(4) within 

ten (10) business days of receipt of the signed court order approving this stipulation. 

3. Plaintiffs agree to accept payment of $22,000 in full satisfaction of any and 

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-3- Joint Stipulation Settling Claims for Attorneys Fees and 

Costs Related to First Claim and [Proposed] Order 

all claims for attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation attributable to Plaintiffs’ First Claim for relief 

in this matter, including any and all attorneys’ fees and costs incurred compiling, presenting, and 

negotiating their claim for attorneys’ fees and costs. 

4. Plaintiffs agree that receipt of this payment from Federal Defendants shall 

operate as a release of Plaintiffs’ claims for all attorneys’ fees and costs attributable to Plaintiffs’ 

First Claim for relief in this matter, and also any and all attorneys’ fees and costs incurred 

compiling, presenting, and negotiating their claim for attorneys’ fees and costs. Plaintiffs reserve 

their claims for attorneys’ fees and costs that are attributable to the Second, Third, Fourth and 

Fifth Claims for relief in this matter. 

5. By this Agreement, Federal Defendants do not waive any right to contest 

any further fees or costs claimed by Plaintiffs or Plaintiffs’ counsel, including the hourly rate, in 

the present litigation or any future litigation. Further, this stipulation has no precedential value 

and shall not be used as evidence in any other attorneys’ fees litigation. 

 Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: June 22, 2005 KELLY A. JOHNSON, Acting Assistant Attorney General 

United States Department of Justice 

Environment and Natural Resources Division 

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Chief 

LISA L. RUSSELL, Assistant Chief 

 

JAMES A. MAYSONETT, Trial Attorney 

D.C. Bar #463856 

Wildlife and Marine Resources Section 

Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7369 

Washington, D.C. 20044-7369 

Telephone: (202) 305-0216 

Facsimile: (202) 305-0275 

Attorneys for Federal Defendants 

Dated: June 22, 2005 KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD 

A Professional Corporation 

By 

Daniel J. O’Hanlon 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs SAN LUIS & DELTAMENDOTA WATER AUTHORITY and 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT 

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-4- Joint Stipulation Settling Claims for Attorneys Fees and 

Costs Related to First Claim and [Proposed] Order 

PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: __June 27, 2005 

/s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

 

HON. OLIVER W. WANGER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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