Fort Mojave Indian Tribe v. United States

OPINION

ANDEWELT, Judge.

In these consolidated cases, plaintiffs, Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and Colorado River Indian Tribe (referred to herein as the Tribes), seek damages from the United States relating to their alleged loss of water rights for irrigating land on their respective reservations. The purported loss of water rights was the result of the 1963 Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. California, 373 U.S. 546, 83 S.Ct. 1468, 10 L.Ed.2d 542 (1963) (Arizona I), and the decree that carried that decision into effect, Arizona v. California, 376 U.S. 340, 84 *420S.Ct. 755, 11 L.Ed.2d 757 (1964)…