United States of America, and Spokane Tribe of Indians, Plaintiff-In-Intervention-Appellant v. Barbara J. Anderson, James M. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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• noting in the context of a question about the state’s jurisdiction to regulate excess water impacting a treaty reservation that “[a]ny permits issued by the state would be limited to excess water. If those permits represent rights that may be empty, so be it.”
• “The weight of the state’s interest depends, in large part, on the extent to which waterways or acquifers [sic] transcend the exterior boundaries of Indian country.”
• \use it or lose it\
• “use it or lose it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).