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

JON D. RUBIN, State Bar No. 196944 

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 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

CONTINUING SCHEDULING 

CONFERENCE 

Judge: Hon. Oliver W. Wanger 

WHEREAS, a scheduling conference in this action is set for January 19, 2006 at 

8:45 a.m.; 

WHEREAS, due to a scheduling conflict counsel for Federal Defendants will be 

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unable to participate in the January 19, 2006 scheduling conference in this action; 

WHEREAS, this action involves claims regarding the status and recovery criteria 

for the delta smelt; 

WHEREAS, some of the same parties, counsel and claims are involved in a second 

action before the Court, California Farm Bureau Federation v. Badgley, et al., No. 1:05-CV-1280 

(“Badgley”); 

WHEREAS, a third action before this Court involving some of the same parties 

and counsel challenges the biological opinion regarding the effect of project operations on the 

delta smelt, National Resources Defense Council v. Norton, et al., No. 1:05-CV-01207 OWW 

(“Norton”); 

WHEREAS, both the Badgley and Norton cases are set for scheduling conference 

on February 8, 2006 at 8:45 a.m.; 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and among the parties, through 

their respective counsel, that the scheduling conference in this action currently set for January 19, 

2006 be continued to February 8, 2006 at 8:45 a.m. 

Dated: January 11, 2006 KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD 

A Professional Corporation 

By /s/ Daniel J. O’Hanlon 

Daniel J. O’Hanlon 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs SAN LUIS & DELTAMENDOTA WATER AUTHORITY and 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT 

Dated: January 11, 2006 SUE ELLEN WOOLDRIDGE 

Acting Assistant Attorney General 

United States Department of Justice 

Environment and Natural Resources Division 

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Chief 

SETH M. BARSKY, Assistant Chief 

/s/ James A. Maysonett (as authorized on 01/11/06) 

JAMES A. MAYSONETT, Trial Attorney 

(D.C. Bar # 463856) 

Wildlife and Marine Resources Section 

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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: January 11, 2006 

/s/ Andrea Treece (as authorized on 01/11/06) 

ANDREA TREECE (CA Bar No. 237639) 

Earthjustice 

426 17th Street, 5th Floor 

Oakland, CA 94612 

Telephone: (510) 550-6725 

Facsimile: (510) 550-6749 

TRENT W. ORR (CA Bar No. 077656) 

953 Clayton Street, #5 

San Francisco, CA 94117 

Telephone: (415) 665-2185 

Facsimile: (415) 665-2592 

Attorneys for Intervenors 

ORDER

The Court, having read and considered the foregoing stipulation, and good cause 

appearing, 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

Dated: __January 12, 2006 

Honorable Oliver W. Wanger 

United States District Judge 

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