San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Superior Court

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• holding that retroactive changes to vested 25 water rights violated the separation of powers and due process clauses
• finding legislative act took control of judicial proceeding by depriving the superior court of its power to hear evidence and determine facts
• finding legislative act took control of judicial proceeding by depriving the superior court of its power to hear evidence and determine facts
• invalidating statute that purported to require agency with adjudicative functions to find facts and decree law in accordance with legislative rather than judicial standards and findings
• invalidating statute that purported to require agency with adjudicative functions to find facts and decree law in accordance with legislative rather than judicial standards and findings
• stating that a legislature cannot \by legislation destroy the constitutional limits on its authority\ or \order the courts to make the [public tnist] doctrine inapplicable to . . . any proceedings\ SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 7 (0) 1947A .40o. governing water rights

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