San Carlos Apache Tribe v. United States

417 F.3d 1091 SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBE, a federally recognized Indian tribe; Velasquez Sneezy, Sr.; Elliott Talgo, Sr.; Paul Nosie, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Gila River Indian Community, Intervenor-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of the Opinion Interior; San Carlos Irrigation & Drainage District; Neil McCaleb, Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Gail Norton, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior; Steven A. Williams, Defendants-Appellees. No. 03-16874. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 17, 2005. Filed August 9, 2005. Joe P. Sparks and Susan B. Montgomery, Sparks, Tehan & Ryley, Scottsdale, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Michael T. Gray and Susan L. Pacholski, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Riney B. Salmon, II, Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, Phoenix, AZ, for the intervenor-appellee. Rodney B. Lewis and John T. Hestand, Chandler, AZ, for the intervenor-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona David C. Bury, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-00255-DCB. Before HAWKINS, McKEOWN, and CLIFTON,…