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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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1 EX PARTE APPLICATION TO 

AMEND JUDGMENT 

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DIEPENBROCK 

HARRISON

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

JON D. RUBIN, State Bar No. 196944 

DIEPENBROCK HARRISON 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, Suite 1800 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4413 

Telephone: (916) 492-5000 

Facsimile: (916) 446-4535 

DANIEL J. O’HANLON, State Bar No. 122380 

WILLIAM T. CHISUM, State Bar No. 142580 

KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, 27th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814-4416 

Telephone: (916) 321-4500 

Facsimile: (916) 321-4555 

Attorneys for Westlands Water District 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BARCELLOS AND WOLFSEN, INC., et al., 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, et al., 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO.: CV 79-106-OWW 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, et al., 

 Plaintiffs-in- 

 Consolidation, 

vs. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., 

 Defendants-in- 

 Consolidation. 

 

CONSOLIDATED 

CASE NO. CV F-81-245-OWW 

EX PARTE APPLICATION AND ORDER 

TO AMEND JUDGMENT TO ALLOW 

FOR AREA REPRESENTATIVE 

RESIGNATION

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2 EX PARTE APPLICATION TO 

AMEND JUDGMENT 

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DIEPENBROCK 

HARRISON

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

Westlands Water District (Westlands) hereby makes this application for an order to amend 

the judgment issued by this Court on December 30, 1986, and modified on December 13, 2002, in 

Barcellos and Wolfsen, Inc., et. al. v. Westlands Water District, et. al., consolidated with, Westlands 

Water District v. United States, Case Nos. CV 79-106-OWW and CV F-81-245 OWW, (“Barcellos

Judgment”). 

The Barcellos Judgment establishes representatives for Area I and Area II, which designate 

the lands in the original Westlands District and the lands in the former Westplains District prior to 

the enactment of the Westlands Water District Merger Law, California Water Code sections 37800, 

et seq. In or about June 2005, Y. Stephen Pilibos, one of the original Area I Representatives 

appointed by the Barcellos Judgment, informed the other Area I Representatives and Westlands 

Water District that he wished to resign as a representative of Area I and subsequently submitted a 

letter of resignation. Declaration of Thomas W. Birmingham, ¶ 2. Although the Barcellos Judgment 

provides for circumstances in which an Area Representative shall automatically lose status, inter 

alia, cessation of ownership and operation of land within the Area represented, death, or 

adjudication of incompetence (Barcellos Judgment at Paragraph 22.3), the Judgment does not 

provide for the voluntary resignation of an Area representative. 

Counsel for Westlands is informed by communications with Charles Shockey, Esq., counsel 

for the United States, William Smiland, Esq., counsel for the Area I Representatives, and Norman 

Hile, Esq., counsel for the Area II Representatives, that there is no objection to this technical 

modification of the Barcellos Judgment. Declaration of Thomas W. Birmingham, ¶ 3. It is 

Westlands’ hope that, because of the technical nature of the proposed amendment, it can be 

accomplished without notice to landowners in Area I and Area II. 

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DIEPENBROCK 

HARRISON

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

For the foregoing reasons, Westlands requests that the Court grant its Ex Parte Application 

to Allow for Area Representative Resignation. 

Dated: March 31, 2006 Respectfully submitted, 

 

DIEPENBROCK HARRISON 

A Professional Corporation 

 

By /s/ Jon D. Rubin 

 Jon D. Rubin 

Attorneys for Westlands Water District 

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DIEPENBROCK 

HARRISON

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THEREFOR, IT IS ORDERED that Paragraph 22.3 of the 

Judgment in Barcellos and Wolfsen, Inc., et. al. v. Westlands Water District, et. al., consolidated 

with Westlands Water District v. United States, Case No. CV 79-106-OWW and CV F-81-245 

OWW, is amended to provide as follows: 

22.3. Any representative of either such Area shall automatically lose status 

as such and shall no longer have any powers or duties as a representative of such 

Area hereunder upon the happening of either (a) the cessation of such 

representative’s juridical existence, including the death or adjudication of 

incompetence of a natural person, or the dissolution of a corporation, or (b) the 

cessation of such representative’s ownership and operation of land within the Area of 

which he is a representative, or (c) written notice of resignation to the other 

representatives of the Area of which he is a representative and to the District. Upon 

the occurrence of such vacancy, the remaining representatives of the affected Area 

owning or operating at least a majority of the assessed value of all the lands within 

such Area which are owned or operated by all the remaining representatives of such 

Area shall select a successor representative willing to so serve. The name of the 

successor representative shall be certified to the District by the representatives who 

have selected the successor. The District shall maintain an up-to-date list of the 

names and addresses of all Area representatives and the assessed value of the lands 

owned or operated by each. 

Dated: ____July 5______, 2006 

/s/ OLIVER W. WANGER 

OLIVER W. WANGER, District Court Judge 

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