Legal Opinion
Yurok Tribe v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
District Court, N.D. California
Decided April 30, 2018No. Case No. 16-cv-06863-WHOPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
William H. Orrick, United States District Judge
INTRODUCTION
On March 24, 2017, I issued permanent injunctions in two related cases, Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation , No. 16-cv-4294, and Yurok Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation , No. 16-cv-6863. See Hoopa Dkt. No. 111; Yurok Dkt. No. 70. The injunctions ordered the United States Bureau of Reclamation (the "Bureau") to require certain types of water flows as part of their operation of the Klamath River Project in order to prevent irreparable harm to the SONCC Coho salmon, an endangered species. The plaintiffs in those two cases are two…
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