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U.S. v. STATE OF OR.

Nos. 92-36983, 92-36985, 92-36987 and 92-37001.

44 F.3d 758 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association; Klamath Tribe, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. STATE OF OREGON, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association, Plaintiff-Intervenor, and Klamath Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. STATE OF OREGON, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. STATE OF OREGON, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Klamath Allottees Water Users Association; Klamath Tribe, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. STATE OF OREGON, Water Resources Department, and William H. Young, Director, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary B. Randall, Michael A. Gheleta, John P. Lange, Robert L. Klarquist, and William B. Lazarus, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee U.S.

Carl Ullman, Water Adjudication Project, Chiloquin, OR and Melody McCoy, Walter Echo-Hawk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO, for intervenor-appellant-cross-appellee Klamath Tribe.

Dale T. White, Fredericks, Pelcyger, Hester & White, Boulder, CO, for intervenor-appellant-cross-appellee Klamath Allottees Water Users Ass'n.

Rives Kistler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, OR, for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants State of Or. and William H. Young.

Before: ALARCON, NORRIS, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals arise out of the State of Oregon's attempts to adjudicate the rights of various claimants to the waters of the Klamath River Basin through a complex procedure created by state statute. We are called upon to address whether the State may compel the United States, the Klamath Indian Tribe and other owners of former reservation land to comply with certain terms of the...

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