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This morning, Judge Lawrence O'Neill of the Eastern District of California (who now presides over the Consolidated Delta Smelt and Consolidated Salmonid Cases following Judge Oliver Wanger's retirement last year) partially granted the federal government's request for more time to complete new biological opinions governing the operation of the Centr ...

Yesterday, Judge Lawrence O'Neill, Judge Wanger's replacement in the Delta smelt cases, denied the joint motion of the feds and the California Department of Water Resources to extend by several years the existing deadline for these agencies to produce a new Delta smelt biological opinion to govern the Central Valley and State Water Projects.  (The ...

On Monday morning in Las Vegas, the Ninth Circuit will hear the consolidated appeals of the federal government and its environmentalist supporters challenging Judge Oliver Wanger's decision to overturn the Delta smelt biological opinion.  These appeals promise to be precedent-setting, as Judge Wanger's decision was one of the first to recognize tha ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Below is PLF's press release applauding Judge Wanger's favorable ruling today in The Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases. This afternoon, Federal Judge Oliver Wanger of the Eastern District of California issued his long-awaited ruling in the The Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases, a legal challenge to the U.S. Fish ...