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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 33:1365 Environmental Matters

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[Proposed] Order to Relate Cases 1 Case No. 1:06-cv-00837-OWW-DLB 

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LAWYERS FOR CLEAN WATER, INC. 

Layne Friedrich (Bar No. 195431) 

Drevet Hunt (Bar No. 240487) 

1004A O’Reilly Avenue 

San Francisco, California 94129 

Telephone: (415) 440-6520 

Facsimile: (415) 440-4155 

Email: layne@lawyersforcleanwater.com

drev@lawyersforcleanwater.com

CENTER ON RACE, POVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 

Brent Newell (Bar No. 210312) 

450 Geary Street, Suite 500 

San Francisco, CA 94102 

Telephone: (415) 346-4179 

Facsimile: (415) 346-8723 

Email: bjnewell@igc.org

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

DELTAKEEPER CHAPTER OF BAYKEEPER, 

MOTHER LODE CHAPTER OF SIERRA CLUB, 

and WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DELTAKEEPER CHAPTER OF BAYKEEPER, a 

California non-profit corporation, MOTHER LODE 

CHAPTER OF SIERRA CLUB, a California nonprofit corporation, and WATERKEEPER 

ALLIANCE, INC., a New York not-for-profit 

corporation, 

 Plaintiffs, 

v. 

S & H DAIRY, a California general partnership, 

RONALD HILARIDES, an individual, PETER 

SCHAAFSMA, an individual, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 1:06-cv-00837-OWW-DLB 

ORDER RELATING CASES 

Honorable Oliver W. Wanger 

(Local Rule 83-123) 

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[Proposed] Order to Relate Cases 2 Case No. 1:06-cv-00837-OWW-DLB 

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WHEREAS, on June 30, 2006, Plaintiffs filed Deltakeeper Chapter of Baykeeper et al v. S & H 

Dairy et al., Case No. 1:06-cv-00837-OWW-DLB (“S & H Action”) and two other cases in the United 

States District Court for the Eastern District of California: Deltakeeper Chapter of Baykeeper et al. v. 

Silva Brothers Dairy Inc. et al., Case No. 2:06-cv-01452-DFL-DAD (“Silva Action”) and Deltakeeper 

Chapter of Baykeeper et al. v. Brasil & Sons Dairy, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:06-cv-01464-DFL-GGH 

(“Brasil Action”). 

WHEREAS, Local Rule 83-123(a) provides that an action is related to another action if the two 

actions (1) involve the same parties and are based on the same or similar claim; (2) involve the same 

property, transaction or event; (3) involve similar questions of fact and the same question of law and 

their assignment to the same Judge or Magistrate Judge is likely to effect a substantial savings of 

judicial effort, either because the same result should follow in both actions or otherwise; or when (4) for 

any other reasons, it would entail substantial duplication of labor if the actions were heard by different 

Judges or Magistrate Judges. 

WHEREAS, on July 6, 2006, pursuant to Local Rule 83-123(b), Plaintiffs filed a Notice of 

Related Case in the Brasil Action, the Silva Action, and the S & H Action. In the Notices of Related 

Case, Plaintiffs stated that the factors identified in Local Rule 83-123(a)(3) were met because (a) each 

of the cases presents identical questions of law, namely whether the defendants in each case have 

violated sections 301 and 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (“Clean Water Act”), 33 

U.S.C. §§ 1311 and 1342, (b) the cases raise similar questions of fact regarding the operation of 

concentrated animal feeding operations (“CAFO”) and the efforts made by the respective defendants to 

operate their CAFOs in compliance with the Clean Water Act, and (c) relating the cases would result in 

a substantial saving of judicial effort since a single judge would be called upon to interpret the same 

sections of the Clean Water Act and evaluate similar questions of fact. 

WHEREAS, on November 2, 2006, the parties and the Court conducted the Case Management 

Conference in the S & H Action. The Court and the parties discussed relating the Silva Action and the 

Brasil Action to the S & H Action which has the lower case number of the three actions. The parties 

have no objection to the cases being related. 

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THEREFORE, the Brasil Action and the Silva Action shall be related to the S & H Action. The 

related cases shall have the following case numbers: 

Deltakeeper Chapter of Baykeeper et al. v. Silva Brothers Dairy Inc. et al., 

Case No. 2:06-cv-01452-OWW (DLB) 

Deltakeeper Chapter of Baykeeper et al. v. Brasil & Sons Dairy, Inc. et al., 

Case No. 2:06-cv-01464-OWW (DLB) 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

DATE: December 5, 2006 /s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

 Honorable Oliver W. Wanger 

 United States District Court 

 

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