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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF TIME — 1:06-CV-0245 OWW TAG 1

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MICHAEL R. SHERWOOD, State Bar No. 63702 

ANDREA A. TREECE, State Bar No. 237639 

Earthjustice 

426 17th Street, 5th Floor 

Oakland, CA 94612 

msherwood@earthjustice.org

atreece@earthjustice.org

Telephone: (510) 550-6725 

Facsimile: (510) 550-6749 

TRENT W. ORR, State Bar No. 077656 

953 Clayton Street, #5 

San Francisco, CA 94117 

torr@earthjustice.org

Telephone: 415/665-2185 

Facsimile: 415/665-2592 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

HAMILTON CANDEE, State Bar No. 111376 

KATHERINE POOLE, State Bar No. 195010 

Natural Resources Defense Council 

111 Sutter St., 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

hcandee@nrdc.org; kpoole@nrdc.org

Telephone: 415/875-6100 

Facsimile: 415/875/6161 

Attorneys for Plaintiff NRDC 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF 

FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS/INSTITUTE 

FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES, et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, in his official 

capacity as Secretary of Commerce et al., 

 Defendants. 

SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA WATER 

AUTHORITY, et al., 

 Defendant-Intervenors. 

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Case No. 1:06-CV-0245 OWW TAG 

REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF TIME 

WITHIN WHICH TO FILE AMENDED 

COMPLAINT 

ORDER 

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Plaintiffs hereby respectfully request an extension of eleven (11) days within which to file an 

amended complaint in this case. The grounds for such request are as follows: 

1. On June 15, 2007, the Court issued its Memorandum Decision and Order Granting 

Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss For Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction (“Decision and Order”) in 

this case. In the Decision and Order the Court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the Seventh 

Claim for Relief under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), but “with leave to 

amend.” Decision and Order at 39. The Court further ordered that “Any amendment shall be filed 

within 10 days following the service of this decision.” Id. at 40. 

2. Ten days following the service of the Decision and Order is today, Monday June 25, 

2007. 

3. Immediately after the Decision and Order was filed, a crisis developed with respect to 

delta smelt, the subject of the related case of Natural Resources Defense Council v. Kempthorne, 

Civ. No. 5-01207 OWW LJO (“NRDC”). That crisis wholly consumed the time of undersigned 

counsel and his co-counsel in this case from June 15, 2007 until the hearing on plaintiffs’ motion for 

a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in NRDC held before this Court on Friday, 

June 22, 2007. 

4. As a result, undersigned counsel has had no opportunity to review carefully the 

June 15, 2007 Decision and Order and to discuss with plaintiffs their options and possible courses of 

action in light of the Decision and Order. Counsel is, however, now able to do that and, if plaintiffs 

decide to amend their complaint, to file any amendment within the next eleven (11) days, or by 

Friday, July 6, 2007. (Plaintiffs request eleven days rather than ten because July 4, 2007 is a 

holiday.) 

5. On June 25, 2007, undersigned counsel e-mailed counsel for federal defendants and 

defendant-intervenors to ascertain their positions regarding this request. As of 4:30 p.m., counsel for 

federal defendants had not replied; counsel for defendant-intervenor Glenn-Colusa Irrigation 

District, et al. stated that he had no objection; and counsel for defendant-intervenors State Water 

Contractors, et al. and defendant-intervenors California Farm Bureau, et al. stated that they would 

agree to this request only if plaintiffs agreed to postpone the existing summary judgment briefing 

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and hearing dates should plaintiffs decide to amend their complaint. 

DATED: June 25, 2007 Respectfully submitted, 

/s/ Michael R. Sherwood 

MICHAEL R. SHERWOOD 

ANDREA A. TREECE 

TRENT W. ORR 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

KATHERINE S. POOLE 

HAMILTON CANDEE 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Natural Resources Defense Council 

ORDER: Good cause appearing, it is hereby ORDERED that plaintiffs shall have until 

July 5, 2007 within which to file an amended complaint in this case. 

DATED: 6/26/2007 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

HONORABLE OLIVER W. WANGER 

United States District Judge 

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