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Nature of Suit Code: 899
Nature of Suit: Other Statutes - Administrative Procedure Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision
Cause of Action: 05:702 Administrative Procedure Act

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

INTERVENE (No. 15-CV-1290-LJO-GSA) - 1

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Earthjustice

705 Second Ave., Suite 203

Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 343-7340

JAN HASSELMAN (WSB #29107) THE HONORABLE LAWRENCE J. O’NEILL

[Pending Pro Hac Vice Application]

Earthjustice

705 Second Avenue, Suite 203

Seattle, WA 98104

Telephone: (206) 343-7340

Facsimile: (206) 353-5126

jhasselman@earthjustice.org

TRENT W. ORR (State Bar No. 77656)

Earthjustice

50 California Street, Suite 500

San Francisco, CA 94111-4608

Telephone: (415) 217-2000

Facsimile: (415) 217-2040

torr@earthjustice.org

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor Applicants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA WATER 

AUTHORITY and WESTLANDS WATER 

DISTRICT,

Plaintiffs,

v.

SALLY JEWEL, et al.,

Defendants.

PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF 

FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS and 

INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES, nonprofit organizations,

Defendant-Intervenor Applicants.

Case No. 15-cv-1290-LJO GSA

ORDER GRANTING PCFFA’S 

MOTION TO INTERVENE

Courtroom: Courtroom 4, 7

th Floor

Judge: Honorable Lawrence J. O’Neill

Hearing Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Action Filed: August 21, 2015

THIS MATTER is before the Court on the motion to intervene of the Proposed 

Defendant-Intervenors, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and the Institute 

for Fisheries Resources (collectively “PCFFA”). Plaintiffs’ counsel does not object provided 

PCFFA will not seek to expand the claims in this case and will accept reasonable limits on 

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

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briefing from intervenors. Defendants’ counsel has indicated that Defendants would stipulate to 

PCFFA’s intervention. 

PCFFA’s motion to intervene satisfies the four requirements of Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 24(a) to intervene as of right. Based on the intervention papers PCFFA has filed, the 

Court finds that PCFFA’s motion is timely filed at this very early stage of the proceedings. 

PCFFA has a significant protectable interest in the Klamath River fisheries which the challenged 

government action is designed to protect. Disposition of this action without PCFFA may, as a 

practical matter, impair PCFFA’s ability to protect its interest in these fisheries and the 

government defendants and other intervenors may not adequately represent PCFFA’s interests. 

The Court, therefore, finds that it is appropriate, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 24, to allow PCFFA to intervene in this action as a matter of right. Alternatively, 

PCFFA’s request to intervene permissively pursuant to Rule 24(b) is also appropriate as the 

request is timely, the applicant’s claim or defense shares a common question of law or fact, and 

intervention would not unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that PCFFA’s motion to intervene as of right, or 

alternatively with permission, as a defendant in this action is GRANTED, conditioned upon 

PCFFA making every effort to avoid duplicative briefing. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 24, 2015 /s/ Lawrence J. O’Neill 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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