Legal Opinion
United States v. Truckee-Carson Irrigation District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 15, 1981No. Nos. 78-1115, 78-1493PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SKOPIL, Circuit Judge:
This action is brought by the United States and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe to quiet title to a water right to sustain the Pyramid Lake fishery. The question raised in this appeal is whether an equitable water adjudication filed by the government in 1913 and finalized in 1944 precludes this cause of action.
In 1913 the United States filed in the U.S. District Court in Nevada an equitable action, United States v. Orr Water Ditch Co., et al., Equity No. 3, naming as defendants virtually all water users on the Truckee River in Nevada. The government sought a decree…
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