Legal Opinion
Joint Bd. of Control of Flathead, Mission v. United States
District Court, D. Montana
Decided October 16, 1986No. CV-86-156-M-CCLPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LOVELL, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
For the second consecutive year these same parties are before the Court quarreling over water allocation on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
In July 1985, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation (“Tribes”) commenced an action to enjoin the dewatering of streams and reservoirs on the Reservation for irrigation. The Tribes claimed that distribution of water by the Flathead Irrigation Project (“FIP” or the “Project”) was threatening the existence and preservation of tribal fisheries, in violation of the…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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