Center for Food Safety v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et al

Filing 18

ORDER granting Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association's 10 Motion to Intervene; Clerk of Court is directed to add Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association as a defendant-intervenor in this action and to separately file Dkt. # 10-3 as its Answer, signed by Judge Robert S. Lasnik. (SWT)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY,
NO. C17-1209RSL
Plaintiff,

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v.

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
INTERVENE

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, et al.,
Defendants.

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This matter comes before the Court on the “Motion to Intervene by Pacific Coast

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Shellfish Growers Association.” Dkt. # 10. Plaintiff takes no position on the motion, but would

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like a procedural order limiting Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association (the intervenor in
this case) and Taylor Shellfish Company (the intervenor in a related case, C16-950RSL) to a

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single summary judgment memorandum if the two cases are consolidated.
Plaintiff’s concerns are contingent on consolidation1 and do not preclude the requested

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intervention. The motion is therefore GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is directed to add Pacific

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Coast Shellfish Growers Association as a defendant-intervenor in this action and to separately

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The parties in the related cases have now filed a motion to consolidate which seeks a
coordinated case management schedule, rather than consolidation. Each plaintiff will be permitted to
pursue, and defendants and the intervenor will be permitted to defend, in the action or actions to which
they are a party.

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION
TO INTERVENE - 1

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file Dkt. # 10-3 as its Answer.

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Dated this 7th day of November, 2017.

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Robert S. Lasnik
United States District Judge

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ORDER GRANTING MOTION
TO INTERVENE - 2