ELR Citation: ELR 20137
No(s). s. 75-567, -577 (U.S. Jan 21, 1977)

The disputed ownership of the bed of a navigable intrastate river should be decided solely as a matter of state law, since the application of federal common law is required neither by the equal footing doctrine nor by any other principle of federal law. Oregon brought an ejectment action against Cor...