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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 42:4332 Environmental Policy - Coop of Agency Reports

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861203.1 -1- Stipulation and Order for Dismissal Without Prejudice And 

Briefing Schedule 

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

BECKY DELL SHEEHAN, State Bar No. 201596 

KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD 

A Professional Corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, 27th Floor 

Sacramento, California 95814-4417 

Telephone: (916) 321-4500 

Facsimile: (916) 321-4555 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs San Luis & Delta-Mendota 

Water Authority and Westlands Water District 

DIANE RATHMANN, State Bar No. 89845 

LINNEMAN, BURGESS, TELLES, VAN ATTA, 

VIERRA, RATHMANN, WHITEHURST & KEENE 

1820 Marguerite Street 

Dos Palos, California 93620 

Telephone: (209) 392-2141 

Facsimile: (209) 392-3964 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority 

Additional Counsel Listed on Signature Page

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA 

WATER AUTHORITY and WESTLANDS 

WATER DISTRICT, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

PIXLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT, et al., 

Plaintiffs-in-Intervention 

v. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., 

Defendants. 

CIV F-97-6140 OWW 

CIV F-98-5261 OWW 

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR 

DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE OF 

FOURTH THROUGH SIXTH CLAIMS OF 

SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT AND 

SCHEDULE FOR BRIEFING AND 

HEARING OF CLAIMS IN 

SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT 

SAVE THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY 

ASSOCIATION, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

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861203.1 -2- Stipulation and Order for Dismissal Without Prejudice And 

Briefing Schedule 

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

THE INTERIOR, et al., 

Defendants. 

WHEREAS, the San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water 

District (jointly “Plaintiffs”) filed their Second Amended Complaint for Declaratory and 

Injunctive Relief (“Second Amended Complaint”) in action number CIV. F-97-6140 OWW on 

April 5, 2001; 

WHEREAS, the First, Second and Third Claims of the Second Amended Complaint were 

finally resolved by the Court’s Partial Final Judgment entered on March 20, 2002, and by related 

appeals, but the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Claims of the Second Amended Complaint remain 

pending; 

WHEREAS, the Plaintiffs no longer desire to pursue the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Claims in 

the Second Amended Complaint provided these claims are dismissed without prejudice, and the 

United States of America, et al. (“Federal Defendants”) do not object to dismissal of these claims 

without prejudice, which dismissal will resolve all remaining claims in the Second Amended 

Complaint; 

WHEREAS, the Plaintiffs filed a Supplemental Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive 

Relief re (b)(2) Accounting for 2004 (b)(2) Accounting Year, Doc. 646, (“Supplemental 

Complaint”) on May 19, 2006, which alleges that the section 3406(b)(2) accounting decision for 

the period October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004 was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of 

discretion, and contrary to law; and 

WHEREAS, the Plaintiffs and Federal Defendants (together the “Parties”) have agreed 

upon and propose to the Court a schedule for resolution of the claims in the Supplemental 

Complaint by motions for summary judgment, which motions are expected to resolve all of 

Plaintiffs’ remaining claims in this action. 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows: 

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861203.1 -3- Stipulation and Order for Dismissal Without Prejudice And 

Briefing Schedule 

1. The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Claims of the Second Amended Complaint shall be 

dismissed without prejudice, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(2). 

2. On or before September 4, 2007, the Federal Defendants shall lodge the 

administrative record regarding the claims in the Supplemental Complaint, and provide a copy of 

the record to Plaintiffs. 

3. Plaintiffs and Federal Defendants shall thereafter confer and seek to resolve any 

issues related to the contents of the administrative record. Plaintiffs believe that the complex and 

technical nature of the accounting issues may require explanatory declarations by experts to 

facilitate the Court’s review, but Plaintiffs will withhold judgment on that issue until after they 

have reviewed the record prepared by Federal Defendants. If the Parties are unable to resolve 

issues concerning the record, the unresolved issues shall be presented to the Court for resolution 

under the following schedule: 

a. Last day for Plaintiffs to file 

Motion to Augment 

Administrative Record 

September 28, 

2007 

b. Last day for Federal Defendants 

to file Opposition to Motion to 

Augment Record 

October 8, 2007 

c. Last day for Plaintiffs to file 

Reply in Support of Motion to 

Augment Administrative 

Record 

October 15, 2007 

d. Hearing on Motion to Augment 

Administrative Record 

October 22, 2007 

at 10:00 a.m. 

4. The schedule for briefing and hearing of motions for summary judgment on the 

claim in the Supplemental Complaint is: 

a. Last day for Plaintiffs to file 

Motion for Summary Judgment 

November 19, 2007 

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861203.1 -4- Stipulation and Order for Dismissal Without Prejudice And 

Briefing Schedule 

b. Last day for Federal Defendants 

to file Opposition to Motion(s) 

for Summary Judgment and any 

Cross Motion for Summary 

Judgment 

December 17, 2007 

c. Last day for Plaintiffs to file 

Reply in Support of Motion for 

Summary Judgment and 

Opposition to any Cross Motion 

for Summary Judgment 

January 7, 2008 

d. Last day for Federal Defendants 

to file Reply in Support of 

Cross Motion for Summary 

Judgment 

January 22, 2008 

e. Hearing on Cross Motions for 

Summary Judgment 

February 11, 2008 at 

9:00 a.m. 

Dated: June 7, 2007 KRONICK, MOSKOVITZ, TIEDEMANN & GIRARD 

A Professional Corporation 

By /s/ Daniel J. O’Hanlon 

DANIEL J. O’HANLON 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and 

Westlands Water District 

Dated: June 7, 2007 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES 

DIVISION 

By /s/ Charles R. Shockey (as authorized on 6/7/07) 

CHARLES R. SHOCKEY 

Attorneys for Federal Defendants 

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ____6/11/2007_____ 

 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

 OLIVER W. WANGER 

 United States District Judge 

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861203.1 -5- Stipulation and Order for Dismissal Without Prejudice And 

Briefing Schedule 

List of Additional Counsel 

THOMAS W. BIRMINGHAM, State Bar No. 110898 

WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT 

3130 N. Fresno Street 

Fresno, California 93703 

Telephone: (559) 224-1523 

Facsimile: (559) 241-6277 

Attorney for Plaintiff Westlands Water District 

JON D. RUBIN, State Bar No. 196944 

DIEPENBROCK HARRISON 

400 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone: (916) 492-5000 

Facsimile: (916) 446-4535 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water 

Authority and Westlands Water District 

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665742.1 10355.6 

-1- Proof of Service 

PROOF OF SERVICE

I, Do Gentry, declare: 

I am a resident of the State of California and over the age of eighteen years, and not a 

party to the within action; my business address is 400 Capitol Mall, 27th Floor, Sacramento, CA 

95814-4417. On May 24, 2007, I served the within documents: 

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE 

OF FOURTH THROUGH SIXTH CLAIMS OF SECOND AMENDED 

COMPLAINT AND SCHEDULE FOR BRIEFING AND HEARING OF 

CLAIMS IN SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT 

 ̈ By transmitting via facsimile from (916) 321-4555 the above listed document(s) 

without error to the fax number(s) set forth below on this date before 5:00 p.m. A 

copy of the transmittal/confirmation sheet is attached. 

ý By placing the document(s) listed above in a sealed envelope with postage thereon 

fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Sacramento, California addressed as set 

forth below. 

 ̈ By causing personal delivery by messenger of the document(s) listed above to the 

person(s) at the address(es) set forth below. 

 ̈ By placing the document(s) listed above in a sealed Federal Express envelope and 

affixing a pre-paid air bill, and causing the envelope to be delivered to a Federal 

Express agent for delivery 

 ̈ By personally delivering the document(s) listed above to the person(s) at the 

address(es) set forth below. 

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED SERVICE LIST 

I am readily familiar with the firm's practice of collection and processing correspondence 

for mailing. Under that practice it would be deposited with the U.S. Postal Service on that same 

day with postage thereon fully prepaid in the ordinary course of business. I am aware that on 

motion of the party served, service is presumed invalid if postal cancellation date or postage 

meter date is more than one day after date of deposit for mailing in affidavit. 

I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this court at whose 

direction the service was made. 

Executed on May 24, 2007, at Sacramento, California. 

 /s/ Do Gentry 

Do Gentry 

(original signature retained by attorney Daniel J. 

O’Hanlon) 

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665742.1 10355.6 

-2- Proof of Service 

SERVICE LIST

Diane Rathmann 

Linneman, Burgess, Telles, Van Atta, Vierra, 

Rathmann, Whitehurst & Keene 

1820 Marguerite Street 

Dos Palos, CA 93620 

Facsimile No.: (209) 392-3964 

Jeremy Friedman 

Law Office of Jeremy L. Friedman 

2801 Sylhowe Road 

Oakland, CA 94602 

Facsimile No.: (510) 530-9087 

Thomas W. Birmingham 

Westlands Water District 

3130 N. Fresno Street 

Fresno, CA 93703 

Facsimile No.: (559) 241-6277

Jeanne M. Zolezzi 

Herum Crabtree Brown 

2291 West March Lane, Suite B100 

Stockton, CA 95207 

Facsimile No.: (209) 472-7986

Jon D. Rubin 

Diepenbrock Harrison 

400 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Facsimile: (916) 446-4535

Daniel M. Dooley 

Dooley, Herr, Carlson & Peltzer, LLP 

100 Willow Plaza, Suite 300 

Visalia, CA 93291 

Facsimile No.: (559) 636-9759 

Charles Shockey 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

501 I Street, Suite 9-700 

Sacramento, CA 95814-2322 

Facsimile No.: (916) 930-2210 

Charles M. Hungerford 

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 

275 Middlefield Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025-3506 

Facsimile No.: (650) 324-0638 

Ernest A. Conant 

Law Offices of Young Woolridge 

1800 30th Street, 4th Floor 

Bakersfield, CA 93301-5298 

Facsimile No.: (661) 327-0720 

Hamilton Candee 

Natural Resources Defense Council 

111 Sutter Street, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Facsimile No.: (415) 875-6161 

Cynthia L. Koehler 

Thomas J. Graff 

Environmental Defense Fund 

Rockridge Market Hall 

5655 College Avenue 

Oakland, CA 94618 

Facsimile No.: (510) 658-0630 

Gregory K. Wilkinson 

Jennifer Buckman 

Best Best & Krieger 

3750 University Avenue, Suite 400 

Riverside, Ca 92501 

Facsimile No.: (909) 686-3083 

Clifford Lee 

Deputy Attorney General 

State of California 

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 

San Francisco, CA 94102-3664 

Facsimile No.: (415) 703-5480 

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