Legal Opinion
Hill v. United States Department of the Interior
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided October 19, 2023No. Civil Action No. 2022-1781Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MICHAEL HILL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 22-1781 (JEB) THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION A federally recognized Indian tribe, the Crow (Apsáalooké) Tribe has lived in Montana for centuries. The water rights of the Tribe on its Reservation had been the subject of decades of litigation and negotiation. To end those fraught disputes once and for all, Congress enacted the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act in 2010, ratifying a compact that the Crow Tribe and the State of…
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