Klamath Irrigation District v. United States

*19KISTLER, J.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit certified three questions to this court, which this court accepted. Klamath Irrigation District v. United States, 345 Or 638, 202 P3d 159 (2009). All three questions arise out of a dispute over water rights in the Klamath River basin. Essentially, they ask whether, as a matter of state law, the farmers and irrigation districts that use water from a federal reclamation project have an equitable property interest in a water right to which the United States holds legal title and whether an equitable property interest in a…