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Nebraska Vs. Wyoming

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 11, 1945

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  1. Colorado Vs. Kansas US Supreme Court · Dec 06, 1943
  2. Brush Vs. Commissioner US Supreme Court · Mar 15, 1937
  3. ickes Vs. Fox US Supreme Court · Feb 01, 1937
  4. U.S. 589 (1945) U.S. Supreme Court Nebraska v. Wyoming
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  5. U.S. 589 (1945) Nebraska v. Wyoming
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  6. and dignity which makes the controversy a justiciable one within the original jurisdiction of this Court. Wyoming v. Colorado
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  7. Farmers' Highline Canal & Reservoir Co. v. Southworth
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  8. Sternberger v. Seaton
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  9. Moyer v. Preston
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  10. Wyo. 308, 44 P. 845. And see the discussion of the problem in Wyoming v. Colorado
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  11. S. 419 , 259 U. S. 459 . Nebraska, on the other hand, was originally a riparian doctrine State. See Meng v. Coffee
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  12. The adoption of the rule of appropriation did not extinguish riparian rights which had previously vested. See Clark v. Cambridge
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  13. Crawford Co. v. Hathaway
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  14. Osterman v. Central
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  15. violation of riparian rights by appropriators will not be enjoined, only compensation or damages being awarded. Cline v. Stock
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  16. McCook Irrigation & Water Power Co. v. Crews
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  17. not so fully and clearly proved, as to warrant the intervention of this Court under our established practice. Missouri v. Illinois
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  18. indefinite future, is no basis for a decree in an interstate suit, since we cannot issue declaratory decrees. Arizona v. California
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  19. jurisdiction of this Court is one of the alternative methods provided by the Framers of our Constitution. Missouri v. Illinois
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  20. Georgia v. Tennessee
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  21. regions cannot help but be injurious. That was the basis for the apportionment of water made by the Court in Wyoming v. Colorado
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  22. an equity suit to enjoin threatened injury, the showing made by Nebraska might possibly be insufficient. But Wyoming v. Colorado
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  23. If there were a surplus of unappropriated water, different considerations would be applicable. Cf. Arizona v. California
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  24. that character and dignity which makes the controversy a justiciable one under our original jurisdiction. Colorado v. Kansas
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  25. Kansas) did not sustain the burden of showing that, since the earlier litigation between the States ( See Kansas v. Colorado
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  26. we made clear (320 U.S. p. 320 U. S. 392 , note 2) that we were not dealing there with a case like Wyoming v. Colorado
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  27. California-Oregon Power Co. v. Beaver
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  28. See Ickes v. Fox
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  29. U. S. 614 pattern of state law as provided in the Reclamation Act. We can say here what was said in Ickes v. Fox
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  30. of the landowners, wholly distinct from the property right of the government in the irrigation works. Compare Murphy v. Kerr
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  31. an actual diversion followed by an application within a reasonable time of the water to a beneficial use. See Murphy v. Kerr
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  32. Commonwealth Power Co. v. State
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  33. Kersenbrock v. Boyes
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  34. by the United States of unappropriated water is largely academic so far as the narrow issues of this case are concerned. v. There
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  35. river, we embark upon an enterprise involving administrative functions beyond our province. We noted in Colorado v. Kansas
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  36. entrusted to us by the Constitution. Those Page 325 U. S. 617 considerations did not prevail in Wyoming v. Colorado
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  37. of the waters of an interstate stream was made. Nor did they prevail in the drainage canal cases. Wisconsin v. Illinois
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  38. U.S. 179, 309 U. S. 309 U.S. 569, 311 U. S. 311 U.S. 107, 313 U.S. 547. And see Sanitary District v. United
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  39. Master recommended a decree based on that principle. That was indeed the principle adopted by the Court in Wyoming v. Colorado
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  40. here. That does not mean that there must be a literal application of the priority rule. We stated in Colorado v. Kansas
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  41. But the decree which is fashioned must be based, as the special master recognized, on the dependable flow. Wyoming v. Colorado
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  42. The fact that the same amount of water might produce more in lower sections of the river is immaterial. Wyoming v. Colorado
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  43. Cf. Colorado v. Kansas
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  44. capacity in excess of the practicable limits of a dependable supply as that term has hitherto been construed. Wyoming v. Colorado
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  45. supra. A mass allocation was made in Wyoming v. Colorado
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  46. dismiss this very case on the ground, among others, that the Secretary of the Interior was a necessary party. Nebraska v. Wyoming
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  47. Scherck v. Nichols
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  48. the amount of natural flow being taken in at the intakes cannot be considered as storage. See Gila Valley Irr. Dist. v. United
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  49. since the Kendrick Project is not completed. We will consider first the return flow from natural drainage. Ide v. United
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  50. which was not susceptible of private appropriation under Wyoming law. The same conclusion was reached in United States v. Tilley
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