ELR Citation: ELR 20120
No(s). 1:09-cv-407 (E.D. Cal. May 29, 2009)

A district court preliminarily enjoined FWS from restricting river flows in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for purposes of protecting the threatened Delta smelt. Water districts filed suit under NEPA and the ESA challenging FWS' 2008 biological opinion for the Central Valley Project (CVP). The opi...