In re the GENERAL ADJUDICATION OF ALL RIGHTS TO USE WATER IN THE BIG HORN RIVER SYSTEM and All Other Sources, State of Wyoming.
State of Wyoming; Midvale Irrigation District; G.A. Brown Testamentary Trust through Langford Keith, Co-Trustee; LeClair Irrigation District; Riverton Valley Irrigation District; and James R. Allen, et al., Appellants (Plaintiffs).
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June 5, 1992.
June 5, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., Mary B. Guthrie, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., and Michael D. White, David F. Jankowski, and Thomas J. Davidson, Special Asst. Attys. Gen., of White & Jankowski, Denver, Colo., for the State.
Jay E. Vincent of Vincent & Vincent, Riverton, and Richard A. Simms and Jay F. Stein and James C. Brockmann, of Simms & Stein, P.A., Santa Fe, N.M., for Midvale Irrigation Dist.
Michael S. Messenger of Messenger & Jurovich, Thermopolis, for G.A. Brown Testamentary Trust.
Norman E. Young of Hill, Young & Barton, P.C., Riverton, for LeClair Irrigation Dist.
Donald P. White of White, White & Roberts, P.C., Riverton, for Riverton Valley Irrigation Dist.
Sky D. Phifer of Phifer Law Office, Lander, for James R. Allen, et al.
Richard B. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Judith Rabinowitz and James J. Clear, Attorneys, Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for the U.S.
William J. Thomson, III of Dray, Madison & Thomson, Cheyenne, and Susan M. Williams and Jane Marx of Gover, Stetson & Williams, P.C., Albuquerque, N.M., for Shoshone Indian Tribe.
Andrew Baldwin and Robert F. Thompson, Ethete, for Northern Arapaho Tribe.
Don W. Riske of Riske & Arnold, Cheyenne, and Thomas D. Lustig of the National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, Colo., for amicus curiae Wyoming Wildlife Federation and National Wildlife Federation.
Before THOMAS, CARDINE, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ., and BROWN, J. (Retired).
Supreme Court of Wyoming.
MACY, Justice.
The State of Wyoming and non-Indian water users appeal from a judgment entered by the district court which (1) decreed that the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes on the Wind River Indian Reservation may change the use of their reserved water right as they deem advisable without regard to Wyoming water law; and (2) substituted the tribal water agency for the state engineer as the administrator of both reserved and state-permitted water rights within...
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