<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_670734" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/thousands-of-irrigators-could-be-eligible-to-join-takings-suit/article_91606b17-d0f8-5864-9e09-30d634f217de.html" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671335">http://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/thousands-of-irrigators-could-be-eligible-to-join-takings-suit/article_91606b17-d0f8-5864-9e09-30d634f217de.html</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671342"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671399"><br></div><h1 itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 42px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 100px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671265">Thousands of irrigators could be eligible to join 'takings' suit</h1><h2 itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 100px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 24px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671266">Forms must be submitted for compensation</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 100px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671267"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 0;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671268"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671269"><span rel="popover" itemprop="author" data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671270"><a href="https://www.heraldandnews.com/users/profile/Holly%20Dillemuth" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(65, 117, 170); text-decoration: none;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671271">By HOLLY DILLEMUTH H&N Staff Reporter </a></span></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671272"><time datetime="2017-03-07T00:25:00-08:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671273">Mar 7, 2017</time></li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671274"><a href="http://www.heraldandnews.com/klamath/thousands-of-irrigators-could-be-eligible-to-join-takings-suit/article_91606b17-d0f8-5864-9e09-30d634f217de.html#comments" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(65, 117, 170); text-decoration: none;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671275"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 1; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671276"></span> (<span data-href="http://www.heraldandnews.com/tncms/asset/editorial/91606b17-d0f8-5864-9e09-30d634f217de/" fb-xfbml-state="rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671277"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671278">0</span></span>)</a></li></ul></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671032"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671033">Irrigators who owned or leased land in the Klamath Reclamation Project on April 6, 2001, are urged to join a class-action lawsuit in order to receive compensation, pending a decision in the so-called “takings” case.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671034"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671035">Those who believe they may have a claim to compensation related to the water shutoffs of 2001 have approximately 90 days to fill out one form allowing them to join the case, certified by Federal Claims Court Judge Marian Blank Horn as a class-action.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671036"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671037">Irrigators can expect to receive an “Entry of Appearance” form partially filled out by their irrigation district. Forms must be returned to Klamath Falls water attorney Bill Ganong by May 19 in order to be eligible to join the suit for compensation.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671099"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671100"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671101"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671102">Background</strong></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671103"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671104">The case stems from when the Bureau of Reclamation shut off water to Basin irrigators in order to protect endangered fish downstream in the Klamath River in 2001.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671105"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671106">Reclamation argues water had to be used to meet the requirements of biological opinions issued that year to promote the health of the sucker and coho salmon.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671107"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671108">If they prevail, the irrigators may be awarded up to $28 million. More importantly to them, the irrigators hope a ruling in their favor would mean that federal agencies must balance agriculture’s loss against the benefits to fish downstream<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671109">.</strong></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671110"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671111">“(The Entry of Appearance) lays out the timelines and the requirements for giving notice to people who owned land in 2001 or were leasing and farming land in 2001,” Ganong said.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671112"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671113">“You have to have owned land that is related to the Klamath Project in 2001 or leased it in 2001 to be in the class,” Ganong said. “It also says it only applies to the west side of the project that receives water from Upper Klamath Lake. The east side, which is Langell Valley, which is served from Clear Lake and Gerber — they actually had water in 2001.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671114"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671115">“Since then, they’ve had a lot tougher time but then they were okay,” Ganong said, referencing the east side.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671116"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671117">He emphasized to return the form as soon as possible.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671118"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671119">“If you think there’s any possibility you have a claim, file it,” Ganong said. “You do not get penalized for filing it. If you don’t file it, then you’re out.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671120"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671121">Upwards of 4,000 people could qualify for compensation, Ganong said, which could be distributed by Judge Horn in one of two ways, pending if her decision favors irrigators. One is a lump sum of approximately $28 million, plus interest.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671122"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671123">“We said there were 336,000 acre feet of water that were not delivered and we said each acre foot was worth $88.86,” Ganong said. “If you do that math, you come up with about $28 million.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671124"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671125">After 16 years since the start of the case, Ganong said the interest on top of the proposed lump sum could double the award, if such an option is chosen by the judge.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671126"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671127">Another option would be to award funds to individual irrigators who opt in to the case, depending on how much irrigation water they used in 2001.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671128"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671129">“It’s completely up to the judge, and she may say we’re not entitled to any money at all,” Ganong said. “That’s part of the spectrum of options.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671130"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671131"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671132">Consolidated case</strong></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671133"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671134">Attorneys for the plaintiff — Marzulla Law, a Washington, D.C.-based firm — filed the third part of the takings case in federal court on Feb. 24: Lonny E. Baley, et al, v. United States and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. The case is consolidated, also including John Anderson Farms, Inc., et al, v. United States.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671135"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671136">The case completed testimonies by the plaintiff and defendant in the Federal Claims Court in the nation’s capital Feb. 10. Final oral arguments by the plaintiff and defendant will take place on May 9, according Ganong.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671137"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671138">“It’ll be a while before we get a decision,” Ganong said.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671139"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671140"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671141">Water contracts</strong></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671142"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671143">Klamath Project water refers to land subject to one of two types of contracts with the United States: Repayment or ‘A’ districts; or Warren Act contracts also called ‘B’ contracts.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671144"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671145">“There is land, such as the Running Y Ranch, that has a Warren Act contract that’s not served by the district but is eligible because they use Klamath Project water,” Ganong said.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671146"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center !important; min-height: 1px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671147"><div data-dfp-adunit="/30582678/PNG/klamath/hn/klamath" data-dfp-custom-pos="png_top" data-dfp-responsive="no" data-dfp-size="[300,250]" data-google-query-id="CPrTmYrV1NICFQeuTwodGYIFTQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 40px; min-height: 250px; min-width: 300px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671148"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px auto; border: 0pt none; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671149"><iframe frameborder="0" src="http://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-6/html/container.html" title="3rd party ad content" name="" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="300" height="250" data-is-safeframe="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671150"></iframe></div></div></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671151"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671152"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671153">“There’s other land on both the west and east sides of the lakes that have Warren Act contracts that we will notify,” he added. “Anybody that was served by an irrigation district will receive this notice and this form from the irrigation district. The order requires that the district fill in the second page.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671154"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671155">Ganong will submit entries for a shared databank-style spreadsheet with Marzulla Law in Washington, D.C.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671156"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671157">“There’ll be thousands of them, I hope,” Ganong said. “The idea is to make sure as many people opt in as they can.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671158"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671159">The form addresses a number of scenarios for landowners, including in the case where a landowner or lessee who died in the years after 2001 can be reimbursed through a claim by way of a relative.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671160"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671161">Irrigation districts are no longer plaintiffs in the case, but individual irrigators are.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671162"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671163">“The reason we initially named the districts is to give the court the option of certifying this as a class-action, which is now where we’re at,” Ganong said. “Because the court distributed it as a class-action, there just wasn’t any need for the districts to be plaintiff any longer.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671164"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671165">Potential class-action members include irrigators from the following districts: Enterprise Irrigation District, Klamath Basin Improvement District, Klamath Drainage District, Klamath Hills District Improvement Company, Klamath Irrigation District, Malin Irrigation District, Pine Grove Irrigation District, Poe Valley Irrigation District; Shasta View Irrigation District, Sunnyside Irrigation District; Tulelake Irrigation District, Van Brimmer Ditch Company.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671166"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671167">Starting on March 17, Ganong and Marzulla Law will submit an updated list of irrigators who are joining the class action suit.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671168"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671169">By April 17, both plaintiffs and defendants will file a post trial brief with the court, followed by an opportunity for both sides to respond.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671170"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671171">All documents related to joining the class-action are due to Ganong’s office by May 19.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671172"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_671173">“It’s been pending for 17 years,” Ganong said. “I don’t have any false hopes,” Ganong added. “We were all pleased that she took the bull by the horns and got it to trial and didn’t let it get postponed. She gave us as much time as we wanted in a full, complete trial.”</div></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489512262681_670745"><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>