Colville Confederated Tribes v. Boyd Walton, Jr., Et Ux

How courts have described this case

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• holding the Court \may look to state law for guidance\ where federal law is not fully developed
• holding the Court “may look to state law for guidance” where federal law is not fully developed
• \[Tribal] reserved water rights are federal water rights and are not dependent upon state law or state procedures.\
• “[Tribal] reserved water rights are federal water rights and are not dependent upon state law or state procedures.”
• “This quantity of water, unrelated to irrigation, was not affected by the allotment of reservation lands and passage of title out of the Indians’ hands.” 26
• federal law governs only scope and volume of reserved right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).