UNITED STATES v. TRUCKEE-CARSON IRRIGATION DISTRICT, STATE OF NEVADA

Nos. 78-1115, 78-1493.

720 F.2d 622 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. TRUCKEE-CARSON IRRIGATION DISTRICT, STATE OF NEVADA, Sierra Pacific Power Company, City of Washoe, and Washoe County Treasurer, Trustee, Albert A. Alcorn, and Approximately 17,000 Other Individually Named Persons, Firms, Partnerships, and Corporations, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Pelcyger, Boulder, Colo., argued for Paiute Tribe; Robert D. Stitser, Reno, Nev., on brief.

Joseph J. Brecher, Oakland, Cal., Phillip Shea, Mark, Shea & Wilks, Phoenix, Ariz., Arthur Lazarus, Jr., Washington, D.C., amicus curiae.

Peter Steenland, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the U.S.

John W. Hoffman, Reno, Nev., argued for the State of Nev.; Gordon H. De Paoli, Reno, Nev., argued for Sierra Pacific; Frederick G. Girard, Sacramento, Cal., argued for Truckee-Carson Irr. Dist.; Paul W. Freitag, Sparks, Nev., Nada Novakovich, Jack I. McAuliffe, Maurice J. Sullivan, Robert L. Van Wagoner and Richard W. Blakey, Reno, Nev., M. Bryon Lewis and Frederick J. Martone, Phoenix, Ariz., Jarold M. Young, Edward Reed, Thomas J. Hall, Leslie B. Gray, Reno, Nev., on brief.

Before TUTTLE, SKOPIL, and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges.


These cases are hereby remanded to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada for further proceedings in conformity with the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Nevada v. United States, 463 U.S. 110, 103 S.Ct. 2906, 77 L.Ed...

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