Legal Opinion

United States v. IDAHO Ex Rel. DIRECTOR, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 3, 1993No. 92-190PublishedCited by 118 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist

The McCarran Amendment allows a State to join the United States as a defendant in a comprehensive water right adjudication. 66 Stat. 560, 43 U. S. C. § 666(a). This ease arises from Idaho’s joinder of the United States in a suit for the adjudication of water rights in the Snake River. Under Idaho Code §42-1414 (1990), all water right claimants, including the United States, must pay “filing fees” when they submit their notices of claims. Idaho collects these fees to “finane[e] the costs of adjudicating water rights,” §42-1414; the United States estimates that in its case the fees could exceed…

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