State of Arizona v. State of California, et al. (531 U.S. 1)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided October 10, 2000 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 531 U.S. 1 · 121 S. Ct. 292
- Decided
- October 10, 2000
- Term
- October Term 2000
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
531 U.S. 1 121 S. Ct. 292 148 L. Ed. 2d 1 STATE OF ARIZONA, COMPLAINANT v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al. BILL OF COMPLAINT No. 8 Orig. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Argued April 25, 2000 Decided June 19, 2000 Supplemental Decree October 10, 2000 ON EXCEPTIONS TO REPORT OF SPECIAL MASTER Syllabus This litigation began in 1952 when Arizona invoked this Court's original jurisdiction to settle a dispute with California over the extent of each State's right to use water from the Colorado River system. The United States intervened, seeking water rights on behalf of, among others, five Indian reservations, including the Fort Yuma (Quechan) Indian Reservation, the Colorado River Indian Reservation, and the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation. The first round of the litigation culminated in Arizona v. California, 373 U.S. 546 (Arizona I), in which the Court held that the United States had reserved water rights for the five reservations, id., at 565, 599_601; that those rights must be considered present perfected rights and given priority because they were effective as of the time each reservation was created, id., at 600; and that those rights should be based on the amount of each reservation's practicably irrigable acreage as determined by the Special Master, ibid. In its 1964 decree, the Court specified the quantities and priorities of the water entitlements for the parties and the…
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