Legal Opinion
Utah v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 26, 1985No. 83-1731PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge.
The State of Utah timely appeals from a summary judgment quieting title in the United States to the bed of Utah Lake, located in Utah County, Utah. Judgment was entered on the theory that the United States withdrew the lakebed as part of an 1889 reservoir site selection, and that title did not pass to the State of Utah under the equal footing doctrine when Utah became a State in 1896, and that title to the lakebed did not pass to the State under the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, 43 U.S.C. §§ 1310-1315. 624 F.Supp. 622 (D.Utah 1983).
We affirm.
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