Standing Rock Sioux Tribe - Department of Water Resources

September 22, 2000

Whether an interlocutory decision of the Arizona Supreme Court establishing a rule of state water law to be applied in an ongoing general stream adjudication effected a judicial taking of petitioners' property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

In 1990, the Arizona Supreme Court certified six issues for interlocutory review in order to aid the state trial court in resolving the claims of competing parties in the ongoing general stream adjudication of the Gila River System. read more....

 

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