Litigation
Oct. 22, 2015
Federal judge rejects claims that water officials illegally altered water flows into the ailing delta
District Judge Lawrence O'Neill ruled that he did not have jurisdiction to hear environmentalists' claims that water agencies ran afoul of administrative and environmental laws when they cut water flows into the delta, lowering water quality and threatening fish.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A district judge in Sacramento on Tuesday rejected claims by environmentalists that federal water operators ran afoul of the law when they cut water flows into the ailing Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta. The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and others sued both state and federal water agencies in June claiming that their decision to alter flows in response to the four-year drought violat...
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