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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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Submitted by:

IGNACIA S. MORENO, Assistant Attorney General

United States Department of Justice

Environment & Natural Resources Division

JEAN E. WILLIAMS, Section Chief

ETHAN CARSON EDDY, Trial Attorney (Cal. Bar No. 237214)

Wildlife and Marine Resources Section

Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 7369

Washington, D.C. 20044-7369

Telephone: (202) 305-0202 / Facsimile: (202) 305-0275

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

THE DELTA SMELT

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Case No. 09-cv-407 OWW DLB

Order Denying Without Prejudice

Plaintiff Family Farm Alliance’s Motion 

for Temporary Restraining Order

Before the Court is the Plaintiff Family Farm Alliance’s (the “Alliance”) Motion for a 

Temporary Restraining Order (Docket No. 614). The Court has considered the motion and 

memorandum in support thereof, the Federal Defendants’ and Defendant-Intervenors’ briefs in 

opposition thereto, and the arguments of the parties at the March 16, 2010 hearing. The Court 

finds that the Motion is untimely under Local Rule 65-231(b) and that the Alliance has not met 

its burden to demonstrate that it is likely to succeed on the merits due to changed operational 

conditions. 

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The Court therefore ORDERS that the motion be DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. 

If the Alliance seeks to pursue preliminary injunctive relief, it must do so by way of a noticed 

motion pursuant to, and subject to the timetables set forth in, the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure and the Local Rules of this Court, unless the appropriate evidentiary showing can be 

made to justify a departure from those rules.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 30, 2010 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE DEAC_Signature-END:

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