[SmithL]

Wanger, Oliver Winston

Born 1940 in Los Angeles, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of California
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on January 8, 1991, to a seat vacated by Milton Lewis Schwartz; Confirmed by the Senate on March 21, 1991, and received commission on March 25, 1991. Assumed senior status on May 31, 2006.

Education:
University of Southern California, B.S., 1963

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, LL.B., 1966

Professional Career:
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Sergeant, 1960-1967
Deputy district attorney, Fresno County, 1967-1969
Adjunct professor, Humphrey College of Law, 1968-1969
Private practice, Fresno, California, 1969-1991
Adjunct professor, San Joaquin College of Law, Fresno, California, 1970-1991
Dean of the law school, 1980-1983
City attorney, City of Mendota, California, 1975-1980
Temporary judge, Superior Court of California, County of Fresno, 1988
Pro tem settlement conference judge, Superior Court of California, County of Fresno, 1989


Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

[TheZMan]

Good. When they don’t have any water to drink, take baths, flush the toilet, or water their all natural herb gardens with and start b@#$hing about it, hopefully someone will point out they’re suffering because of some stupid a@# fish.

We’re back to the newest hypocrisy to bust across the US. Logic, facts and reason have nothing to do with decision making. Am I the only one that’s noticed the latest rash of admittance that this is the case?

[mirkwood]

In downeast Maine the smelt population is huge. Everyone here fishes for smelt.

[the invisib1e hand]

i thought “delta pumping” was something that options traders did.

[kittymyrib]

All those illegal “immigrants” really do put a strain on CA resources. They ought to make them bring their own water.

[JB in Whitefish]

Darn over privileged College Kids...!!!

This whole THING has been caused by former members of “I Smelta Delta”

[Seadog Bytes]

The Green Din continues unabated...

(Ag land) - (water) = ('open space')
...Funny how that works, isn't it? (It's never been about the 'environment'... It's about 'control'.)

[EternalVigilance]

Bow to your judicial masters.

Even the water you need to survive is in their hands.

[marsh2]

Let’s see if this second ruling will finaly bring to a head the unworkability of the endangered species act. Let’s see if the uproar of having southern California households turn on an empty tap, and a major portion of the nation’s fresh fruit and vegetable food source wither from lack of water to the central valley or all those Hollywood types suffer from a lack of water for their pools.

Perhaps we can even stop the major diversion of the Trinity River from the Klamath system south to the central valley so we can use it to support local ESA listed coho and depressed stocks of chinook that have shut down fisheries for 700 miles of coast. Instead of blaming the Klamath Basin farmers for a lack of water and killing fish, we could actually retain the 60% of the Trinity flow now diverted and use that to restore natural flows.

You see, ESA is only implemented when it is the little guy. That way the public never sees the human consequences of the draconian measures actually required under the act - like turning off taps - or Klamath Basin headgates.