ELR Citation: ELR 20704
No(s). s. 81-2245 et al (U.S. Jun 24, 1983)

The Supreme Court rules that res judicata bars the United States and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe from seeking water rights to the Truckee River to preserve Pyramid Lake and its fish populations. In the Orr Ditch litigation, settled in 1944, the United States, on behalf of the tribe and the Newland...