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DESERT WATER AGENCY v. U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

No. 14-55461.

849 F.3d 1250 (2017)

DESERT WATER AGENCY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Kevin Haugrud, Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior; United States of Bureau of Indian Affairs; Michael S. Black, Acting Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 7, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick E. Walston (argued) and Steven G. Martin , Best Best & Krieger LLP, Walnut Creek, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Matthew Littleton (argued), John H. Turner, Jr. , Elizabeth Ann Peterson , and William B. Lazarus , Attorneys; John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Bethany Sullivan and Jennifer L. Turner , Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

We must decide whether a political subdivision of the State of California has standing to challenge a federal regulation it believes might preempt certain taxes and fees it assesses against non-Indians who have leased lands within an Indian Reservation.

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A

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