Legal Opinion
Save Our Sonoran, Inc. v. Flowers
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2004No. 02-16156, 02-16263, 02-16355PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we consider the management of the waterways in Arizona’s Sono-ran desert. This, of course, inevitably brings to mind the exchange between Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (Warner Bros.1942), which aptly distills this dispute to its essence:
Captain Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
In our case, it was not Rick Blaine, but the United States Army Corps of Engineers that came to the…
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