Legal Opinion
In Re the Crow Water Compact
Montana Supreme Court
Decided December 30, 2015No. DA 15-0370PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice McGRATH
¶1 Objectors to the Crow Water Compact appeal from the Montana Water Court’s orders of December 24, 2014, and May 27, 2015, ruling in favor of the settling parties’ motion for summary judgment and approving the Water Compact with a final order.
¶2 We affirm the decision of the Water Court.
ISSUES
¶3 We restate the issues on appeal as follows:
¶4 Issue One: Did the Water Court apply the proper legal standard of review in approving the Compact in the final order?
¶5 Issue Two: Did the Objectors meet their burden of proof under the standard of review applied to compacts?
¶6 Issue Three: Did the Crow…
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