Legal Opinion
BedRoc Limited, LLC v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 2004No. 02-1593PublishedCited by 547 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
The question here is whether sand and gravel are “valuable minerals” reserved to the United States in land grants issued under the Pittman Underground Water Act of 1919 (Pittman Act or Act), ch. 77, 41 Stat. 293. We hold they are not.
Beginning with the Homestead Act of 1862, ch. 75,12 Stat. 392, and stretching into the early 20th century, Congress enacted a series of land-grant statutes aimed at settling the American frontier. One of these was the Pittman Act. That Act sought to succeed where earlier homestead laws had failed: promoting development and population growth in the State of…
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