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IN RE GEN. ADJUDICATION OF ALL RIGHTS TO USE WATER

Civ. No. 80-3031

531 F.Supp. 449 (1982)

In re the GENERAL ADJUDICATION OF ALL RIGHTS TO USE WATER AND WATER RIGHTS ON the MISSOURI RIVER, STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA. STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA ex rel. Mark V. MEIERHENRY, Attorney General, Plaintiff, v. RIPPLING WATER RANCH, INC., et al., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Dakota, C. D.

January 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark V. Meierhenry, Atty. Gen., John P. Guhin, John J. Smith, Asst. Attys. Gen., Pierre, S. D., for plaintiff.

Philip N. Hogen, U.S. Atty., Sioux Falls, S. D., for defendant.

Reid Peyton Chambers, William R. Perry, Sonosky, Chambers & Sachse, Washington, D.C., for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

W. Richard West, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman, Washington, D.C. and Marvin Amiotte, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, S. D., for Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

Thomas W. Fredericks Boulder, Colo., for Crow Creek Sioux Tribe.

James McCurdy, Vermillion, S. D., for Yankton Sioux Tribe.

R. Dennis Ickes, Stringham, Larsen, Mazuran & Sabin, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

Joseph Troisi, Eagle Butte, S. D., for Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

Richard Dauphinais, Anita Remerowski, Native American Rights, Boulder, Colo., for Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DONALD J. PORTER, District Judge.

CASE SUMMARY

The State of South Dakota commenced this case in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Hughes County, South Dakota, on March 17, 1980. The United States removed this case to this court on April 15, 1980, and the State thereafter moved to remand.1 This Court finds that although nothing in the McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. § 666, compels...

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