Legal Opinion
United States v. Alpine Land & Reservoir Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 4, 1989No. Nos. 88-2539, 88-2542PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
Introduction
This appeal is yet another phase of the epic litigation over rights to the waters of the Carson and Truckee Rivers. Here, the United States together with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians (the Tribe), the downstream user of the Truckee River, is pitted against the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID), which represents the owners of land within the Newlands Reclamation Project (the Project), the upstream users of the Carson and Truckee Rivers.
The Project has two divisions, the Truckee and the Carson. To supply the irriga-tors of the Truckee…
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