Legal Opinion
Elephant Butte Irrigation District v. United States Department of Interior
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 25, 2001No. 99-2291, 99-2295PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
The United States Department of the Interior and various federal officials (DOI), appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to plaintiffs Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico and El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 of Texas (the water districts) on Count I of the water districts’ complaint. The water districts cross-appeal the grant of summary judgment to DOI on Count VI of the complaint. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.
I
The operative facts of this case date back to the early twentieth century. The two projects involved in…
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