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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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[Proposed] Order 

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BRENDA W. DAVIS, State Bar No. 133087 

bdavis@bwdlawgroup.com 

LESLIE R. WAGLEY, State Bar No. 215281 

lwagley@bwdlawgroup.com

THE BRENDA DAVIS LAW GROUP 

1990 3rd Street, Suite 400 

Sacramento, Ca. 95811 

Telephone: (916) 341-7400 

Facsimile: (916) 341-7410 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Family Farm Alliance 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FAMILY FARM ALLIANCE, a nonprofit 

organization; 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

KENNETH LEE SALAZAR, as Secretary 

of the United States Department of the 

Interior, et al., 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 1:09-cv-01201-OWW-DLB 

Order Regarding Consolidation 

Date: January 11, 2010 

Time: 11:15 a.m. 

Courtroom: 3 

Honorable Oliver W. Wanger

Having reviewed the parties’ responses and replies to the Court’s December 3, 2009 Order to 

Show Cause Re Consolidation and oral argument from the parties on January 11, 2010, the Court 

hereby ORDERS that the above-captioned matter be partially consolidated with The Delta Smelt 

Consolidated Cases, Case No. 09-407 OWW-DLB. 

Plaintiff’s second and third causes of action will remain separate from The Delta Smelt 

Consolidated Cases and shall maintain the current case number for those causes of action. Plaintiff 

Family Farm Alliance’s first cause of action will be consolidated with The Delta Smelt Consolidated 

Cases. Plaintiff Family Farm Alliance will receive the pleadings and reports related to the upcoming 

evidentiary hearings in The Delta Smelt Consolidated Cases to evaluate the necessity of adding any 

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of its own experts for those hearings, coordinate with the other Delta Smelt Consolidated Cases

parties, and prepare a status report to the Court regarding that evaluation by January 26, 2010. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: January 22, 2010 /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

HON. OLIVER W. WANGER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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