NAVAJO NATION v. U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Kathryn Hoover (argued) and Stanley M. Pollack , Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Window Rock, Arizona; Alice E. Walker and Gregg H. DeBie , Meyer Walker Condon & Walker P.C., Boulder, Colorado; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John L. Smeltzer (argued), Mary Gabrielle Sprague , and Thomas Snodgrass , Attorneys; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Robert Snow and Sarah Foley , Attorneys, Solicitor's Office, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Rita P. Maguire (argued), Rita P. Maguire PLLC, Phoenix, Arizona; Steven B. Abbott , Redwine and Sherrill LLP, Riverside, California; Kenneth C. Slowinski , Arizona Department of Water Resources, Phoenix, Arizona; Marcia Scully and Catherine M. Stites , Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Charles T. DuMars , Law & Resource Planning Associates P.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico; John B. Weldon Jr. and Lisa M. McKnight , Salmon Lewis & Weldon P.L.C., Phoenix, Arizona; Stuart L. Somach and Robert B. Hoffman , Somach Simmons & Dunn APC, Sacramento, California; Jay M. Johnson , Central Arizona Water Conservation District, Phoenix, Arizona; Aaron Ford , Attorney General; Christine Guerci-Nyhus , Special Counsel to the Colorado River Commission of Nevada; State of Nevada and Colorado River Commission of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada; Gregory J. Walch , General Counsel, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, Nevada; Lauren J. Caster and Bradley J. Pew , Fennemore Craig P.C., Phoenix, Arizona; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

Monte Tyler Mills , Associate Professor and Director, Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic, Alexander Blewett III School of Law, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, for Amici Curiae Law Professors.

David L. Gover , Joe M. Tenorio , and Matthew Campbell , Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado; Daniel D. Lewerenz , Native American Rights Fund, Washington, D.C.; Derrick Beetso , National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae NCAI Fund.

Concurrence by Judge Lee.