UNITED STATES v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Civ. No. S-3014.

403 F.Supp. 874 (1975)

The UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. The STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. California.

October 9, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Germeraad, Douglas N. King, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Richard Nichols, Asst. U. S. Atty., Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiff.

Evelle J. Younger, State Atty. Gen., and Richard C. Jacobs, Roderick E. Walston, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


OPINION

MacBRIDE, Chief Judge.

At the turn of the century, a burgeoning nation was in the midst of Western expansion. Hampering this expansion, however, was the simple geographical fact that great areas within the Western states and territories encompassed arid and semiarid lands. By the enactment of the Reclamation Act of 1902, Title 43 U.S.C. § 371 et seq., Congress concluded that much of these arid and semiarid lands could be made habitable...

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