| 25-523 |
United Water Conservation District v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Pending |
Amici (7) |
fifth-amendment government-appropriation physical-taking property-rights regulatory-taking water-rights |
Whether the government's appropriation of water that a person had a property right to use is analyzed as a physical taking, rather than a regulatory t… |
| 25-266 |
City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
drought-impact fifth-amendment property-rights reclamation-act takings-clause water-rights |
1. Whether in accordance with Section 8 of the Reclamation Act, 28 U.S.C. § 372, the beneficial users of Reclamation Project irrigation water have com… |
| 23-308 |
Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
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circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights |
Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States is permissible |
| 23-216 |
Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comprehensive-adjudication federal-obligations federal-removal in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-review mccarran-amendment prior-exclusive-jurisdiction state-adjudication water-rights |
Whether the federal government can avoid the doctrine of prior exclusive jurisdiction in an ongoing, comprehensive water adjudication under the McCarr… |
| 22-1116 |
Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure federal-agency federal-government native-american-tribes sovereign-immunity state-adjudication water-rights |
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an action challenging a federal agency's use of water subject to state-adjudicated wa… |
| 22-969 |
City of Santa Maria, California, et al. v. San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority agency-discretion cooperative-federalism federal-statute nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers state-water-rights statutory-interpretation water-rights |
Whether the nondelegation doctrine and separation of powers prevent courts from interpreting a federal statute's 'and other purposes' clause to invest… |
| 22-655 |
Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-three-standing district-court-order federal-enforcement final-judgment government-agreement judgment-amendment standing tribal-reserved-rights tribal-rights water-rights |
Whether landowners have standing to appeal a district court order approving a government agreement to amend a final judgment decreeing tribal reserved… |
| 22-410 |
Chama Troutstalkers, LLC, et al. v. Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-footing-doctrine ideal-opportunity property-title public-easement recreational-access recreational-activities state-supreme-court-conflict takings territorial-lands water-rights |
Under the equal-footing doctrine, was the United States' title subject to a public easement for recreational activities? |
| 22-51 |
Department of the Interior, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
federal-fiduciary-duty federal-government-duty fiduciary-duty judicial-enforcement native-american-law native-american-rights navajo-nation sovereign-obligations treaty-interpretation treaty-rights water-rights |
Whether the federal government owes the Navajo Nation an affirmative, judicially enforceable fiduciary duty to assess and address the Navajo Nation's … |
| 21-1484 |
Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
arizona-v-california breach-of-trust colorado-river federal-jurisdiction federal-trust-responsibility indian-reservation indian-reservations water-rights winters-doctrine |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Opinion infringes upon the Supreme Court's retained and exclusive jurisdiction over the allocation of water from the Lower B… |
| 21-520 |
Gerald H. Hawkins, Individually and as a Trustee of the CN Hawkins Trust and Gerald H. Hawkins and Carol H. Hawkins Trust, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
federal-authority federal-government-authority federal-indian-trust-relationship indian-tribes indian-trust-assets klamath-indian-tribes land-management protocol-agreement standing trust-assets water-rights |
Does the federal government possess final decision-making authority over the management of water rights held in trust for an Indian tribe? |
| 20-1376 |
Michael Abatti, et al. v. Imperial Irrigation District |
California |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bryant-v-yellen due-process federal-law federal-reclamation imperial-valley prior-appropriation property-rights reclamation-act standing water-law water-rights |
Whether the District may abrogate the farmers' water rights that it previously conceded, and that this Court recognized, in Bryant |
| 20-890 |
Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. California, et al. |
California |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
compensation constitutional-rights due-process emergency-authority property-rights public-trust-doctrine quasi-legislative takings water-rights |
Whether government may avoid constitutional rights to due process and compensation by crafting quasi-legislative regulations that eliminate the proper… |
| 19-1134 |
Lonny E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
endangered-species-act federal-agency federal-reserved-water-rights fifth-amendment mccarran-amendment reclamation-act state-law state-water-law tribal-rights water-rights |
Whether federal agency regulatory action under the Endangered Species Act can constitute the adjudication and administration of water rights for triba… |
| 19-113 |
William F. Holdner v. Katy Coba, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agricultural-operation agriculture-operation-permit civil-rights due-process environmental-law environmental-regulation federal-environmental-regulations habeas-corpus patent patent-rights property-rights stormwater-permit water-pollution water-rights |
Whether a person engaged in an agricultural operation can be charged and convicted for failure to possess a stormwater permit |
| 18A1271 |
Nathan Boyd Estate, et al. |
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2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
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federal-claimants interstate-dispute intervention original-jurisdiction supreme-court water-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant intervention to pre-federal claimants in an original jurisdiction water rights dispute between Texas, New Mexic… |
| 18-1110 |
Cecil Daughtrey, et ux. v. Luis E. Rivera |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
army-corps-of-engineers bankruptcy-code-conversion bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-trustee-duties chapter-11-conversion debtor-interests department-of-interior department-of-justice due-process environmental-protection environmental-protection-agency government-agencies national-defense property-dispute property-rights trustee-actions us-government water-resource water-rights |
Denial of Chapter 11 conversion to hide unique global drinking water and energy resource |
| 18-7398 |
Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt |
New Mexico |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights |
Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summary judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues? |
| 18-571 |
James Lee Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 1964-supreme-court-decree civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-agencies fraud sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations water-rights yuma-reclamation-project |
Whether valid claims of constitutional rights violations containing elements of fraud should be dismissed as frivolous due to the statute of limitatio… |
| 18-205 |
Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. |
California |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights |
Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes… |