Westlands Water District v. United States

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

WANGER, District Judge.

Before the court are the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment, which seek to determine the relative rights to water from a federal reclamation project, under three separate contracts with the United States, executed: (1) with plaintiff Westlands Water District (“Westlands”) in 1963 (“1963 Contract”); (2) with plaintiff San Benito County Water District (“San Benito”) in 1978 (“1978 Contract”); and (3) with defendants-in-intervention San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority and Friant…