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 2020-09-30 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 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 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 Water Rights in the Western States written by Samuel Charles Wiel and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law written by Lloyd Burton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton dissects the irreconcilable conflict of interest within the Interior Department (between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs). He also examines the methods of managing disputes in contemporary cases and offers original policy recommendations that include establishing an Indian Water Rights Commission to help with the paradoxical task now facing the federal government--restoring to tribes the water resources it earlier helped give away.
Download or read book Selected Problems in the Law of Water Rights in the West written by Wells Aleck Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Water Law in the Development of the West written by United States. National Resources Planning Board. Water Resources Committee and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 State Water Law in the Development of the West written by United States. National Resources Planning Board. Water Resources Committee and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 152 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 1908 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Land and Law in the West written by Donald J. Pisani and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series presents an interdisciplinary approach to the use and misuse of resources in the American West. This volume comprises essays written between 1982 and 1994, and previously published in journals such as Western Historical Quarterly, J. of American History, and Environmental History Review). Pisani, one of the nation's leading environmental and Western historians, highlights the central role played by land, water, and timber allocation in the American West, and shows how efforts to achieve justice and efficiency were compromised by the region's obsession with achieving rapid economic growth. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Western Water Policy Review Act of 1991 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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