Preliminary Injunction Orders United States To Release More Klamath Water For Fish

(February 9, 2017, 3:09 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on Feb. 8 granted summary judgment for two Native American tribes and entered a preliminary injunction requiring the federal government to release enough water from the Klamath Project to reduce the risk of infection downstream to fish in the Klamath River (Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. v. National Marine Fisheries Services, et al., No. 16-4294, and Yurok Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation, No. 16-6863, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18054)....