Legal Opinion
Jicarilla Apache Tribe v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 29, 1981No. Nos. 80-1704, 80-1705 and 80-1759PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.
This action was originally filed by the Jicarilla Apache Tribe in the year 1975. The object of the suit was to obtain a general adjudication of water rights on the Navajo River and its tributaries in the State of New Mexico. The tribe also sought an injunction prohibiting alleged illegal diversions on the Navajo River by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the San Juan-Chama Project Act, 43 U.S.C. 615 et seq. (1976).
In July 1977 the district court ordered the case dismissed for lack of jurisdiction on the basis that a water right adjudication of the…
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