United States v. Alpine Land & Reservoir Company

878 F.2d 1217 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. ALPINE LAND & RESERVOIR COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, Applicant-Appellant/Cross-Applicant-Appellee, Truckee-Carson Irrigation District; Water Right Transfer Applicants, Applicants-Appellees/Cross-Applicants-Appellants. Nos. 87-1746, 87-1747. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 15, 1988. Decided July 7, 1989. Robert S. Pelcyger, Fredericks & Pelcyger, Boulder, Colo., for defendant-appellant. Frederick G. Girard, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, Cal., for defendant-appellee. Fred R. Disheroon, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Before HALL, KOZINSKI and NOONAN, Circuit Judges. CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge: 1 The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians (the Tribe) appeals the district court's decision to uphold the Nevada State Engineer's (the Engineer) approval of 129 applications for the transfer of water rights within the Newlands Reclamation Project in Nevada (the Project). The applications seek the transfer…