Legal Opinion
Flint v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 27, 1990No. 89-35110PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
Landowners in eastern Washington brought a class action challenging charges assessed by the Secretary of the Interior for the use of artificially stored ground *473water. We consider whether these charges under contracts executed pursuant to the Reclamation Project Act are subject to judicial review.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In 1902, Congress passed legislation authorizing the creation and operation of facilities to provide water to land within federal irrigation projects. The Columbia Basin project, which Congress created in 1937, contemplated the withdrawal of large…
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