Legal Opinion
WATERSHED ENFORCERS v. Department of Water Resources
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 17, 2010No. A117715, A117750PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MARCHIANO, P. J.
California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR), a state agency, operates a pumping system that results in the taking of three endangered or threatened species of fish. Watershed Enforcers (Watershed), a project of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, a nonprofit corporation, filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel DWR to stop taking the fish species without permit authority under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) (Fish & G. Code, § 2050 et seq.). Appellants, three local water agencies, intervened in the mandate proceedings and argued CESA…
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