Download or read book Western Water Rights and the U S Supreme Court written by James H. Davenport and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water resources in the western United States, this book focuses on the important case of Wyoming v. Colorado (1922). U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, a former Chief Justice of Wyoming, ruled in that state's favor, finding that prior appropriation applied across state lines--a controversial opinion influenced by cronyism. The dicta in the case, that the U.S. Government has no interest in state water allocation law, drove the balkanization of interstate water systems and resulted in the Colorado River Interstate Compact between Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. The exhaustive research that has gone into this book has uncovered the secret that Associate Justice Van Devanter had waited eleven years to publish his opinion in this important, but politically self-serving, case, at last finding a moment when his senior colleagues were sufficiently absent or incapacitated to either concur or dissent. Without the knowledge of his "brethren," save his "loyal friend" Taft, and without recusal, Van Devanter unilaterally delivered his sole opinion to the Clerk for publication on the last day of the Supreme Court's October 1921 Term.

Download or read book Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States written by Wells Aleck Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adjudication of Water Rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States written by Wells A. Hutchins and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hutchins, Wells A., Harold H. Ellis and J. Peter DeBraal. Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States. [Washington, D.C.]: United States Department of Agriculture. [1971]. Three volumes. Reprint available July 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-414-2. Cloth. $350. * Rights to the use of water from surface and underground sources are often crucial in the seventeen contiguous Western states, Alaska and Hawaii. This work offers a comparative analysis of the development and status of the constitutional provisions, statutes, reported court decisions and administrative regulations, practices and policies regarding water rights laws in these states. The analysis considers the nature of these water rights and their acquisition, control, transfer, protection and loss. Federal, interstate and international matters are also discussed.

Download or read book Digest of Certain Supreme Court Decisions Pertinent to the Proposed Western Water Rights Settlement Act S 863 and State Federal Water Problems written by United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Solicitor and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States Supreme Court and Water Rights written by Irrigation Districts Association of California. Water Economics Committee and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Rights in the Western States written by Samuel Charles Wiel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the common law and federal and state statutes pertaining to the water rights of lands west of the 100th meridian. Initially the law was one of possessory right upon the public domain. As a sidelight it provides insight into the legal history and situation in the West during this time period.

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Download or read book Adjudication of Water Rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation to authorize adjudication of suits against and on behalf of the Federal Government in State courts.

Download or read book Digest of Certain Supreme Court Decisions Pertinent to the Proposed Western Water Rights Settlement Act S 863 and State Federal Water Problems written by United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Solicitor and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal State Relations in the Field of Water Rights written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal State Water Rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Extracts from the Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal State Relations in the Field of Water Rights written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 9. Considers H.R. 1234 and related bills, to make Federal agencies comply with state laws that govern control, appropriation, use, and distribution of each state's water systems and resources.

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Download or read book Federal State Water Rights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (88) S. 1275.