Holguin v. Elephant Butte Irrigation District

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that an attempt to litigate water rights implicating U.S./Mexico treaty could not be adjudicated without United States government
• stating that “[t]he water right is acquired by perfecting an appropriation, i.e., by an actual diversion followed by an application within a reasonable time of the water to a beneficial use” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[Wjater belongs to the state which authorizes its use. The use may be acquired but there is no ownership in the corpus of the water.”
• judicial notice of agency rules and regulations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).