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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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United States District Court

Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KARUK TRIBE, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

WILLIAM STELLE, et al.,

Defendants.

and

SISKIYOU COUNTY, et al.,

Defendant-Intervenors.

Case No. 16-cv-01079-MMC 

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS' 

MOTIONS FOR TEMPORARY 

RESTRAINING ORDER AND 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION; 

DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR 

STAY OF ORDER DENYING 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

Re: Dkt. No. 36

Before the Court is plaintiffs’ Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, filed April 

18, 2016.1 The matter came on regularly for hearing on today’s date. Susan Jane M. 

Brown and Peter M. K. Frost of the Western Environmental Law Center appeared on 

behalf of plaintiffs. S. Derek Shugert, Bradley H. Oliphant, and David B. Glazer of the 

U.S. Department of Justice appeared on behalf of defendants. Julie A. Weis of Haglund 

Kelley LLP appeared on behalf of defendant-intervenors. 

The Court having considered the parties’ respective written submissions and the 

arguments of counsel at the hearing, and for the reasons stated by the Court on the 

record, the motion for a temporary restraining order and motion for a preliminary 

 

1 At the close of the below-referenced hearing, the Court granted plaintiffs’ 

unopposed oral request that the matter also be treated as a motion for a preliminary 

injunction.

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injunction are hereby DENIED. Additionally, plaintiffs’ oral motion for a stay of said ruling 

is hereby DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 25, 2016

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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