Legal Opinion
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians v. Hodel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 9, 1989No. 88-15116PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:
The Secretary of the Interior and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians appeal an order compelling the Secretary to release 21,435 acre feet of water from the Stampede Reservoir on the Little Truckee River to the Lahontan Reservoir for irrigation of lands in the Newlands Project, a federal reclamation project operated under contract by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (District). We reverse and remand.
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This litigation concerns the administration of the decree entered in 1973 in Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians v. Morton, 354 F.Supp. 252…
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