Here is the opinion in Crow Creek Sioux Tribe v. United States.
Briefs:
Here is the opinion in State of New Mexico v. Aamodt.
Briefs:
Answering Brief for the United States of America
Appellant’s Consolidated Reply Brief to Appellees’ and Appellees in Intervention’s Briefs
Appellant’s Supplemental Brief Pursuant to the Court’s April 5, 2018 Order
Joint Answer Brief of Defendants-Appellees Santa Fe County and City of Santa Fe
Response Brief of Appellee the Rio De Tesuque Association, Inc.
Here is “Indigenous communities, groundwater opportunities,” published in Science:
Here is the opinion in United States v. Walker River Irrigation District. From the court’s syllabus:
The panel first held that the district court was correct that it retained jurisdiction to litigate additional rights in the Walker River Basin and to modify the 1936 Decree. On the merits, the panel held that the district court erred in characterizing the counterclaims as part of a new action. The panel concluded that based on the procedural history and the fact that the Tribe and the United States brought their counterclaims under the same caption as the 1924 action, the counterclaims did not constitute a new action. The panel further held that the district court erred by dismissing the claims sua sponte on the basis of res judicata without first giving the parties an opportunity to be heard on the issue. Moreover, the panel held that because the counterclaims were not a new action, traditional claim preclusion and issue preclusion did not apply.
The panel directed that on remand, the case should be randomly reassigned to a different district judge. The panel reluctantly concluded that reassignment was appropriate because it believed (1) that Judge Jones would have substantial difficulty putting out of his mind previously expressed views about the federal government and its attorneys, and (2) that reassignment will preserve the appearance of justice.
Here is the opinion in United States v. United States Board of Water Commissioners.
Here is the opinion in Mono County v. Walker River Irrigation District. From the court’s syllabus:
In an appeal raising issues pertaining to Nevada state water law, the panel certified to the Supreme Court of Nevada the following question:
Does the public trust doctrine apply to rights already adjudicated and settled under the doctrine of prior appropriation and, if so, to what extent?
Here are the briefs (so far) in Coeur d’Alene Tribe v. State of Idaho:
Here:
2018-04-13 Doc 335 NN Mot Leave Intervene
2018-04-13 Doc 335-1 NN Memo in Support of Mot for Leave to Amend
2018-04-13 Doc 335-2 EX 1 – NN Proposed Third Amended Complaint
On remand from the Ninth Circuit, the Nation moves the district court for leave to file its third amended complaint, which restates the Nation’s claims for breach of trust (dismissal of the Nation’s NEPA claims was upheld). The appeals court gave short shrift to the argument by the US, adopted by the district court, that sovereign immunity barred the breach of trust claim, clarifying (consistent with the majority of circuits) that section 702 of the APA, as amended, is a broad waiver of that immunity for claims not seeking money damages.
While continuing to assert that the Secretary as water master for the mainstream of the Colorado River in the Lower Basin breached his fiduciary duties, including the duty of protection explicitly undertaken in the 1849 Treaty of Peace, in management decisions that failed to account for the needs and unquantified rights of the Navajo Nation for homeland purposes, the proposed amended complaint now focuses more particularly on the federal defendants’ historic failure to correct an omission in the Decree in Arizona v. California, omitting lands above Lake Mead, and inducing reliance on limited water supplies by others with rights junior to the Navajo Nation to the detriment of the Nation.
Trent Crable, Daron Carreiro, Heather Whiteman Runs Him, Joel Williams, Jeanette Wolfley

Here is the opinion in Navajo Nation v. Dept. of the Interior.
An excerpt:
The panel held that the Nation’s breach of trust claim was not barred by sovereign immunity, and remanded to the district court to consider the claim on its merits. The panel held that the broad waiver of sovereign immunity found in § 702 of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) waived sovereign immunity for all non-monetary claims, and § 704 of the APA’s final agency action requirement constrained only actions brought under the APA. The panel concluded that the Nation’s breach of trust claim sought relief other than money damages, and the waiver of sovereign immunity in § 702 applied squarely to the claim.
Lower court materials here.
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