Here are the materials in Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District v. Lee (D. Ariz.):
DCT Order Granting Salt River Project Motion
Salt River Project Motion for Summary J
This case is on remand from the Ninth Circuit, materials here.
For more background on the Navajo Preference in Employment Act, see Howard Brown and Ray Austin’s excellent article here.
Here is the opinion in Salt River Project v. Lee.
Lower court materials here.
More materials later.
Update — here are the briefs:
Here:
Salt River Project v. Arizona Cert Petition
Question presented:
Where the United States has, prior to statehood and pursuant to the 1902 Reclamation Act, undertaken to dam and divert substantially the entire annual flows of a river to *ii provide water for federal Reclamation purposes, must a court applying the federal test of “navigability” for determining a new state’s “equal footing” title take into consideration the impacts of those federal actions on the condition of the river at statehood?
Here are the materials in Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District v. Lee (D. Ariz.):
Navajo Exhaustion Motion to Dismiss
Navajo Rule 19 Motion to Dismiss
Salt River Motion for Summary Judgment
This case is on remand from the Ninth Circuit — and that order is here.
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