Smith v. Central Arizona Water Conservation District

418 F.3d 1028 John E. SMITH, husband, and as Trustee of the Smith Family Trust; Mary Lou Smith, wife; Pretzer Land & Cattle, an Arizona corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CENTRAL ARIZONA WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, a municipal corporation of the State of Arizona, Defendant-Appellee. No. 03-16962. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued April 14, 2005. Submitted: August 3, 2005. Filed: August 10, 2005. J. Gordon Cook, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Stuart L. Somach, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona; Earl H. Carroll, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-03-00505-EHC. Before: HUG, THOMPSON, and RYMER, Circuit Judges. DAVID R. THOMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge: 1 John E. Smith, Mary Lou Smith, the Smith Family Trust, and the Pretzer Land and Cattle Company ("the landowners") own land located within the Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation and Drainage District and the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District ("the irrigation districts"), respectively. Through a master contract and related subcontracts with the Central Arizona Water Conservation District…