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OCCIDENTAL GEOTHERMAL, INC. v. SIMMONS

Nos. C-81-0510, C-82-0911.

543 F.Supp. 870 (1982)

OCCIDENTAL GEOTHERMAL, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. Charles T. SIMMONS, Individually, and as Conservator of the Estate of Octavia Simmons, Conservatee, and Robert M. Curtis, Trustee of the Marital Trust under the Will of William W. Simmons, Jr., Defendants, The United States; James Watt, in his capacity as Secretary of the Interior; and William French Smith in his capacity as Attorney General of the United States, Additional Defendants Aligned in Interest With Plaintiff, Binkley Ranch Club, Frank Palmieri, Hummingbird West, a California corporation, Thomas E. Binkley and Robert W. Binkley, Carolyn M. Henderson, Henry P. Spaletta, Jr. and Nancy Spaletta, and Charles Gates, Intervenors. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, Plaintiff, v. BINKLEY RANCH CLUB, a corporation, Defendant, United States of America, Defendant Aligned in Interest with Plaintiff.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

July 15, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tony J. Tanke, Lombardi & Lombardi, Knudson, Tanke & Scholz, Berne Reuben, Griffinger & Levinson, San Francisco, Cal., for Occidental Geothermal, Inc.

Philip C. Fullerton, Fullerton, Lang, Richert & Patch, Fresno, Cal., for Robert M. Curtis.

Peter F. Windrem, Lakeport, Cal., for Binkley Ranch Club, Frank Palmieri, Hummingbird West, Thomas E. Binkley, Nancy Spaletta, Charles Gates, Robert W. Binkley, Carolyn H. Henderson and Henry P. Spaletta, Jr., intervenors.

David E. Golay, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Susan V. Cook, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for Federal defendants.

Michael L. McQueen, James N. Barkeley, Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Co. of California — amicus curiae.

N. Gregory Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dennis M. Eagan, Joseph Barbieri, M. Anne Jennings, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for Cal. Dept. of Water Resources.

OPINION

PATEL, District Judge.

I. THE PROPHECY

In the early 1900s Congress enacted a number of statutes opening up public lands for agricultural and homestead settlement, subject to a reservation of mineral rights to the United States. One of those statutes was the Stock-Raising Homestead Act of December 29, 1916, 43 U.S. §§ 291-301 (hereinafter the "1916 Act").

In the long debates that preceded this legislation one congressman...

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