United States v. Board of Directors

MEMORANDUM **

This is the third appeal in a long-running action by the United States and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe (the “Tribe”) to recoup water that the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (“TCID”) willfully diverted from the Truckee River for irrigation purposes between 1973 and 1987, in violation of federally imposed operating criteria and procedures (“OCAP”) and to the detriment of the Tribe.1 See United States v. Bd. of Dirs. of Truckee-Carson Irrigation Dist. (Bell II), 723 F.3d 1029 (9th Cir. 2013); United States v. Bell (Bell I), 602 F.3d 1074 (9th Cir. 2010). The remaining dispute…