Natural Resources Defense Coun v. Kenneth Salazar

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• explaining that a similar shortage provision in the DMC Contracts “is permissive, and merely absolves the United States of liability if there is a water shortage resulting from, inter alia, ‘actions taken . . . to meet legal obligations.’”
• “The agency lacks discretion only if another legal obligation makes it impossible for the agency to exercise discretion for the protected species’ benefit.”
• We refer to the Delta-Mendota Canal water supply contracts as the “DMC Contracts,” and the contractors as the “DMC Contractors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).