Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al.
JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether landowners have standing to appeal a district court order approving a government agreement to amend a final judgment decreeing tribal reserved water rights
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether landowners, whose water use was exempted from federal enforcement under a decadesold final judgment decreeing tribal reserved water rights, have Article III standing to appeal from a district court order approving a government agreement to amend said judgment so that landowners’ water rights can be subjected to federal enforcement? 2. May non-party landowners appeal from a district court order approving an agreement by three government parties to amend a decades-old final judgment (and related final orders), when landowners were haled into court by an order to show cause stating their rights will be bound by the amended judgment and landowners fully participated in the show cause proceedings as ordered?