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DALRYMPLE v. GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY

Nos. 96-5113 to 96-5115.

145 F.3d 1180 (1998)

Jack DALRYMPLE; Rosemary Dalrymple; David A. Adams; R.D. "Buddy" Adams; Kenneth Bales; Patricia Bales; Gerald L. Baser; Bettie L. Baser; Larry J. Becker; Robert K. Berry; Susan M. Berry; Mark E. Blankenship; Board of Commissioners of Ottawa County, Oklahoma; Charles Bowling; Kathy Bowling; Calvin Brady; Chet Brewington and Susan Brewington, d/b/a Thunderbird Motel; Edna Offutt Bryant; George Campbell; Carol Sue Campbell; Kenneth Cass; Maxine Cass; Marvin Champlin; Joyce Champlin; Don Childers; Dee Childers; City of Miami, Oklahoma, a municipal corporation; H. Dale Conard; Sherry Davis; Chester Desilva; Debbie Desilva; E.G. Ventures, Inc.; Maxine Ferguson; Earl B. Ferris; Kenneth Ferris; Diann Ferris; Howard W. Hoover; Stephen L. Hunter; Debbie L. Hunter; Smithy Jameson; K.C. Jeffries; Gary B. Jenkins; Betty A. Jenkins; Steve Kresyman, d/b/a/ Miami Car Wash; Roy K. Lacen; Ida M. Lacen; Jeffrey Lavine; Johnia Lavine; Bruce Lawrence; Regina Lawrence; Faye Lester; Vera Dowty Lowery; Tim Lucas; Rhonda Lucas; Chris Mabury; Debra Mabury; Nadine Macy; Justin Mahurin; Becky Mahurin; Louis E. Mathia, d/b/a Riverside Auto Salvage; Jeffry McCool and Carolyn McCool, d/b/a Vettes and Vans; E.W. McRae; Miami Animal Hospital, Inc.; Miami Tire Service, Inc.; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Mid-America Land, Grain & Cattle Company; Leo J. Mills; Virginia D. Mills; Jimmie Mooneyham; Alan E. Newkirk; Mary Niffen; Tammy Niffen; Robert E. Patterson; David D. Payne; Robert Pewitt; Ann Pewitt; Tim Potter, d/b/a Potter Landscaping & Nursery; James Redden; Cathy Redden; Wayne E. Roberts; Claude Rogers; Joseph A. Rosin; Rosin Heritage, Inc.; Paula S. Rutledge; Nick A. Shade; Marian Shipman; Gary Roy Shoultz, d/b/a Gary's Barbecue and Deli; Robert L. Silversmith; Ruth Silversmith; Bess M. Stephens; Edison B. Stepp; Patricia Stevens; Randy Stoner; George S. Stunkard, d/b/a Blaster's Arcade; Glen Summers; Dean Trone; Teresa Trone; Bert Vanatta; C.H. Vanatta; Donald Vaughn; Loretta J. Vaughn; Emma Vaughn; Everett R. Wagoner; Madeleine Wagoner; Joseph Walden; Harold Watson; Bill E. Way; Shelby Way; Maynard Weathers; Joann Weathers; Lahoma Webb; Michael Webb; Ruth Webb; Wayne L. Webb; Nancy C. Webb; R. Neil Wells; James L. Wetzel; Harmon Wiley; Anna Lee Wiley; John D. Wilhoit, Jr.; Rose M. Wilhoit; David Wilkinson; James Worley; Cheryl Worley; individually and as representatives of a class consisting of all persons and entities located upstream of Pensacola Dam who have been injured by floods caused or increased by the Dam since September 1992, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY, and Ronald Coker, in his official capacity as General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Grand River Dam Authority, Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America ex rel. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, and United States Army Corps of Engineers, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 28, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Larry Bork (Wayne T. Stratton, with him on the brief) of Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & Palmer, L.L.P., Topeka, Kansas; and Frank M. Hagedorn (Graydon D. Luthey, with him on the brief) of Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Janet Kay Jones (Susan Tomasky, General Counsel, and Joseph S. Davies, Acting Solicitor, with her on the brief), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, for Third-Party Defendant-Appellee Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Philipe Pinnell (Stephen C. Lewis, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Assistant United States Attorney, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Third-Party Defendant-Appellee United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Robert A. Franden (Jody R. Nathan of Feldman, Franden, Woodard, Farris & Taylor, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Allen B. Pease of Grand River Dam Authority, Vinita, Oklahoma, with him on the brief) of Feldman, Franden, Woodard, Farris & Taylor, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Before BRORBY and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BLACK, District Judge.

BRORBY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Grand River Dam Authority (the "Authority"), is a conservation and reclamation district created pursuant to Oklahoma statute "for the purpose of utilizing the waters of Grand River and its tributaries." Grand River Dam Auth. v. Wyandotte Bd. of Educ., 193 Okla. 551, 147 P.2d 1003, 1004 (1943) (citing Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 861(1941)), cert. denied, 322 U.S. 733, 64 S.Ct. 1045, 88 L.Ed. 1568 (1944); Teague v....

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