(January 9, 2017, 1:10 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States on Jan. 8 opposed an 11th-hour motion by plaintiffs in the 15-year-old Klamath water takings litigation to certify a class, a motion that came just 26 days before the start of a trial in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (Klamath Irrigation District, et al. v. United States, et al., No. 01-591L, and John Anderson Farms, Inc., et al., No. 07-194C, Fed. Clms.)....