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<br />. <br /> <br />-..., <br /> <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />13. Defenders of Wildlife et al. v. Secretary of the Interior, Civil Action No. 00-1544 (D.C. <br />District of Columbia). <br /> <br />You may recall that Carol Angel prepared and filed an amicus curiae brief for Colorado in <br />this case. The plaintiffs were U.S. and Mexican environmental organizations. They alleged that <br />the Bureau of Reclamation and several other Interior agencies had violated the Endangered <br />Species Act in connection with the management of the reservoirs on the lower Colorado River <br />because they had failed to consider impacts to protected species in the Colorado River Delta in <br />Mexico. On March 31 the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the <br />defendants' motion for summary judgment (which we had supported in our amicus brief) and <br />dismissed the suit in its entirety. The Court concluded: "... it seems unlikely that any case will <br />present facts that more clearly make any agency's actions nondiscretionary than this one: a <br />Supreme Court injunction, an international treaty, federal statutes, and contracts between the <br />government and water users that account for every acre foot of lower Colorado River water." <br />