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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: 05:551 Administrative Procedure Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRIANT WATER AUTHORITY, a

California joint powers

authority, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v. CIV. F-14-765 LJO/BAM

SALLY JEWELL, as Secretary of

the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT

OF THE INTERIOR, et al.,

Defendants

 /

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE

COUNCIL, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

CIV. S-88-1658 LKK/GGH

v.

KIRK RODGERS, a Regional

Director of the UNITED STATES

BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, et al.,

Defendants.

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The court is in receipt of a Notice of Related Cases filed 

herein on May 22, 2014. (ECF No. 1421.) Grassland Water District 

and Grassland Resources Conservation District ("Grassland 

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Parties"), two of the defendants in Friant Water Authority v. 

Jewell, No. 1:14-cv-00765-LJO-BAM, contend that the latter case is

related to the instant case within the meaning of Local Rule

123(a).

Whatever the substantive merits of the Grassland Parties'

position, relation is not warranted. The undersigned will be

assuming inactive status effective October 1, 2014. As a result,

even if the cases were ordered related, the matter would be 

assigned to a new judge within a few months, thereby obviating

any "savings of judicial effort" or avoidance of "substantial

duplication of labor." Local Rule 123(a). Under these

circumstances, I DECLINE to relate the cases.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: May 27, 2014.

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