In Re Rights to Use Water in Big Horn River

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that Winters is “not authority for limiting reserved water for a permanent homeland reservation to irrigation because the only reserved water rights sought were for irrigation and related uses”
• “The role of the state engineer is ... not to apply state law, but to enforce the reserved rights as decreed under principles of federal law.”
• only awarding water for agricultural uses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).