Here:
Jemez River Basin Water Users Coalition Brief
Association of Community Ditches of Rio San Jose Amicus Brief
El Rito Ditch Asociacion Amicus Brief
Lower court materials here.
Indian water rights
Tribal Water Law
8th Annual Tribal Water Law Conference
September 26-27, 2019
Hilton Resort & Villas, Scottsdale, AZ
Get some CLE’s and listen to Matthew Fletcher on Maintaining a Tribal Homeland in the Modern Era. More information here.
Navajo Water Rights Trust Breach Case Dismissed
Here are the updated materials in Navajo Nation v. Dept. of the Interior (D. Arizona):
Third Amended Complaint materials
340 Utility and State Response
369 Utility and State Response
Prior posts here.
Ak-Chin Prevails (with US Help) in Water Dispute with Central Arizona Water Conservation District
Here are the materials in Ak-Chin Indian Community v. Central Arizona Water Conservation District (D. Ariz.):
108 Ak-Chin Motion for Summary J
115 US Reply in Support of 107
116 Ak-Chin Reply in Support of 108
Prior posts here.
Federal Court Rejects Individual Blackfeet Members’ Objection to Water Compact
Here are the materials in Enrolled Members of the Blackfeet Tribe v. Crowe (D. Mont.):
Bob Anderson on Indigenous Rights to Water and Environmental Protection
Robert T. Anderson has published Indigenous Rights to Water & Environmental Protection in the Harvard Civil rights-Civil Liberties Law Journal.
an excerpt:
This article examines the rights of Indian nations in the United States to adequate water supplies and environmental protection for their land and associated resources. Part I of this article provides a brief background on the history of federal-tribal relations and the source and scope of federal obligations to protect tribal resources. Part II reviews the source and nature of the federal government’s moral and legal obligations to Indian tribes, which are generally referred to as the trust responsibility. Indian reserved water rights and the difficulty tribes experience in protecting habitat needed for healthy treaty resources is discussed in Part III. Part IV reviews the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy and the shortcomings of federal law in protecting tribal reservations and resources. Part V concludes with recommendations for enhanced and improved access to justice as well as substantive changes in the law to advance environmental protection for Indian tribes in the United States.
New Mexico COA Decides Navajo Nation Water Rights Issue
Here is the opinion in State of New Mexico ex rel. State Engineer v. United States:
Federal Circuit Rejects Trust Breach Claim for Water by Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Tenth Circuit Dismisses Objectors’ Appeal of Pojoaque Valley Water Settlement
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.
New Scholarship on Indian Water Rights [Science Magazine]
Here is “Indigenous communities, groundwater opportunities,” published in Science:
