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Therefore, the Court held the water rights were effectively reserved at the time of the reservation's creation. Arizona v. California also concerned the quantity of water reserved. The Supreme Court ruled that the tribes were entitled to enough water to irrigate all the "practicable irrigable acreage" on the reservation.
The court determined that the Secretary of the Interior was not bound by Prior-appropriation water rights in allocating water among the states, within the 1964 decree. [1] 292 U.S. 341 (1934): Arizona argued that the Colorado River Compact was unconstitutional. 298 U.S. 558 (1936): Arizona requested that the Supreme Court:
In the Southwestern United States, water scarcity was (and remains) a critical problem. The McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. § 666, was a statute enacted by United States Congress in 1952 [2] allowing the United States to be joined as a defendant in certain suits concerning the adjudication or administration of rights to use of waters.
The Supreme Court seemed split Monday as it weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River. States that draw ...
Arizona, Nevada and Colorado — and water districts in California that are also involved in the case had urged the court to decide for them, which the justices did in a 5-4 ruling. Colorado had ...
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court limits federal protection for wetlands in a property rights case, saying the Clean Water Act does not usually apply to the marshy areas.
Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court case clarifying water rights of American Indian reservations. [1] This doctrine was meant to clearly define the water rights of indigenous people in cases where the rights were not clear. [2]
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers. In a 5-4 decision, the justices ruled that the water ...