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Watt Vs. Western Nuclear, Inc.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 06, 1983

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  1. Griffiths Vs. Commissioner US Supreme Court · Dec 18, 1939
  2. United States Vs. Coleman US Supreme Court · Apr 22, 1968
  3. Watt v. Western
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  4. Nuclear, Inc. - 462 U.S. 36 (1983) U.S. Supreme Court Watt v. Western
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  5. Nuclear, Inc., 462 U.S. 36 (1983) Watt v. Western
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  6. District Court affirmed the ruling that the mineral reservation in the SRHA encompasses gravel. Western Nuclear, Inc. v. Andrus
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  7. by Western Nuclear did not constitute a mineral reserved to the United States under the SRHA. Western Nuclear, Inc. v. Andrus
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  8. Northern Pacific R. Co. v. Soderberg
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  9. Waugh v. Thompson
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  10. Board of County Comm'rs v. Good
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  11. White v. Miller
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  12. understood to include only inorganic substances having a definite chemical composition, see, e.g., Ozark Chemical Co. v. Jones
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  13. Lillington Stone Co. v. Maxwell
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  14. United States v. Aitken
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  15. serve only to exclude substances that are not minerals under any common definition of that word. Cf. United States v. Toole
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  16. type of mineral that Congress intended to reserve to the United States in lands patented under the SRHA. Cf. Andrus v. Charlestone
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  17. Congress intended the mineral reservation in the SRHA to encompass gravel. On the one hand, in Northern Pacific R. Co. v. Soderberg
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  18. U.S. at 188 U. S. 536 (emphasis added), quoting Midland R. Co. v. Checkley
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  19. a homestead entry made on land alleged to be chiefly valuable for the gravel and sand located thereon. Zimmerman v. Brunson
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  20. L.D. 310, overruled, Layman v. Ellis
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  21. which was never tested in the courts and was not mentioned in the Reports or debates on the SRHA. Cf. Helvering v. New
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  22. of the surface estate that Congress contemplated. As the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit noted in United States v. Union
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  23. Cf. United States v. Isbell
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  24. Cf. Northern Pacific R. Co. v. Soderberg
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  25. United States v. Isbell
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  26. gravel is inorganic. Moreover, as the Department of the Interior explained in 1929 when it overruled Zimmerman v. Brunson
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  27. Layman v. Ellis
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  28. of facilitating the concurrent development of surface and subsurface resources. See, e.g., Mastro Plastics Corp. v. NLRB
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  29. See Edwards v. Kleppe
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  30. Charlestone Stone Products Co. v. Andrus
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  31. Melluzzo v. Morton
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  32. Clear Gravel Enterprises, Inc. v. Keil
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  33. Verrue v. United
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  34. Barrows v. Hickel
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  35. United States v. Schaub
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  36. L.D. at 718-721, overruling Zimmerman v. Brunson
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  37. Cf. United States v. Barngrover
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  38. had occasion to decide the appropriate treatment of gravel under the mining laws, the Court did note in United States v. Coleman
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  39. is no indication that Congress intended the mineral reservation in the SRHA to be narrower in scope than the mining laws. v. Finally
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  40. United States v. Union
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  41. Pacific R. Co., 353 U. S. 112 , 353 U. S. 116 (1957). See Andrus v. Charlestone
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  42. Caldwell v. United
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  43. that gravel does not constitute a mineral reserved to the United States under the Act. State ex rel. Highway Comm'n v. Trujillo
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  44. See Skeen v. Lynch
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  45. Loney v. Scott
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  46. Ore. 378, 385, 112 P. 172, 175 (1910). See also State ex rel. Atkinson v. Evans
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  47. Pacific Coat Marble Co. v. Northern
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  48. Pacific R. Co., 25 L.D. 233, 245 (1897). See Bennett v. Moll
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Watt v. Western
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  50. Western Nuclear, Inc. v. Andrus
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