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Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 21-35502 · judgment August 3, 2022
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether landowners, whose water use was exempted from federal enforcement under a decadesold final judgment decreeing tribal reserved water rights, have Article III standing to appeal from a district court order approving a government agreement to amend said judgment so that landowners’ water rights can be subjected to federal enforcement?
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May non-party landowners appeal from a district court order approving an agreement by three government parties to amend a decades-old final judgment (and related final orders), when landowners were haled into court by an order to show cause stating their rights will be bound by the amended judgment and landowners fully participated in the show cause proceedings as ordered?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Peter Guillum Scott
Peter G. Scott Law Offices PLLC
For respondent
Peter Benjamin Gonick
Attorney General of Washington
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Mar 20 2023Petition DENIED.
- Mar 01 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/17/2023.
- Feb 13 2023Waiver of right of respondent State of Washington to respond filed.
- Feb 13 2023Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
- Jan 26 2023Waiver of right of respondent Dawn Mining Company to respond filed.
- Jan 10 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 13, 2023)