ROGER HILL v. WARSEWA

No. 19-1025.

947 F.3d 1305 (2020)

ROGER HILL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Mark Everett WARSEWA; Linda Joseph; the State of Colorado, Defendants-Appellees, Law Professors; Colorado Water Congress; Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District; Taylor Placer, Ltd; Crystal Creek Homeowners Association, Inc.; Jackson-Shaw/Taylor River Ranch, LLC.; Wilder Association, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED January 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander N. Hood (and Mark Squillace , with him on the brief), Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Scott Steinbrecher , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Philip J. Weiser , Attorney General and Daniel E. Steuer , Senior Assistant Attorney General, with him on the brief), Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellee State of Colorado.

Kirk B. Holleyman , Kirk Holleyman, P.C., Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellees Warsewa and Joseph.

Jennifer L. Danis and Edward Lloyd , Morningside Heights Legal Services, Inc., Environmental Law Clinic, Columbia Law School, New York, New York; and Kevin Lynch , Wyatt G. Sassman , and Sarah A. Matsumoto , Environmental Law Clinic, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, for Amici Curiae of Law Professors, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stephen H. Leonhardt and April D. Hendricks , Burns, Figa & Will, P.C., Greenwood Village, Colorado; Kendall K. Burgemeister of Law of the Rockies, Gunnison, Colorado, for Amici Curiae Colorado Water Congress and Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District, in support of Defendant-Appellees.

Richard A. Westfall , Hale Westfall, LLP, Denver, Colorado, and Charles B. White , Petros & White, LLC, Denver, Colorado, for Amici Curiae Taylor Placer, LTD, Crystal Creek Homeowners Association, INC., Jackson-Shaw/Taylor River Ranch, LLC, and Wilder Association, in support of Defendants-Appellees.

Before HOLMES, KELLY, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff-Appellant Roger Hill appeals from the district court's dismissal of his complaint pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) for lack of prudential standing. Mr. Hill is a fly fisherman who prefers to fish at a favorite spot in the Arkansas River. Defendants-Appellees Mark Everett Warsewa and Linda Joseph (Landowners) contend...

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