nr case list 2016
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NATURAL RESOURCES LAW
Winter 2016
Peter N. Davis
Materials: WEBER, HARDER & BEARDEN, CASES & MATERIALS ON WATER LAW (West 9th ed. 2014).
Davis, Supplemental Cases – on TWEN page.
ASSIGNED CASES
WATER USE LAW
Introduction
readings
hydrologic cycle
Diffused Surface Water
Fryer v. Warne
doctrines
Casanover
Peck v. Herrington
Heins Implement
floodwaters
Campbell v. Anderson
CB 1-9
CB 83-85
Riparian Rights
waters subject to riparian rights
Broadbent
Supp. ○
origins
Tyler v. Wilkinson
Supp. ○
reading: Kent
Supp. ○
reading: Wiel
Supp. ○
reading: Maass & Zobel
Supp. ○
riparian land ownership
Anaheim v. Fuller
CB 247-54
Jones v. Conn
Supp. ○
Stratton
Supp. ●
Thompson v. Enz
CB 254-58
reasonable use
Harris v. Brooks
CB 258-67
Bollinger v. Henry
Supp. ●
Orr v. Mortvedt*
CB 268-74
Botton v. State
CB 275-82
Evans v. Merriwether
CB 282-86
Farrell v. Richards
CB 286-91
Kennebunk
Supp. ●
prescription
Pabst v. Finmand
CB 291-97
transfer
Duckworth v. Watsonville CB 297-99
Pyle v. Gilbert
CB 299-302
State v. Apfelbacher
CB
302-04
municipal supply
Adams v. Greenwich Water CB 304-09
Hudson River Fisherman’s CB 309-14
In re MDL-1824*
CB 314-23
Groundwater
reading
readings
doctrines
Wheatley v. Baugh
Finley
Higday v. Nickolaus
State v. Michaels Pipeline
ownership of water
Blue Springs v. Central
underground streams
Jones v. Home B. & L.
Missouri’s last word
Citizens ... v. Porter
Supp. ○
Supp. ○
Supp. ○
Supp. ● *
Supp. ●
CB 355-58
CB 371-78
Supp. ○
Supp. ○
Supp. Supp. ○
CB 359-67
Supp. ●
Supp. ○
Supp. ● *
Prior Appropriation
readings
CB 9-15
origin
Irwin v. Phillips
CB 16-22
diversion
Missouri River Drainage
CB 22-29
beneficial use
Idaho Dep't of Parks
CB 29-33
Thornton v. Bijou Irrigation CB 33-42
Washington DOE v. Grimes CB 42-46
Imperial Irrigation Dist.
CB 47-54
priority
1
Cary v. Cochrane
CB 55-65
C. & C. of Denver
CB 65-74
Phillips v. Gardner
CB 74-77
Cache La Poudre
CB 78-83
waters subject to appropriation
State v. Hiber
CB 85-91
R.J.A. v. Water Users
CB 91-98
groundwater
State ex rel. Bliss v. Dority CB 367-71
place of use
Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch CB 98-104
appurtenance
Salt River Valley
CB 104-08
protection of means of diversion
State ex rel. Crowley
CB
108-17
access
Hallauer v. Spectrum
omit
(117-22)
permit system
Wyoming Hereford
CB 133-28
availability of water
Lower Colorado
CB 128-36
public interest
Young & Norton
CB 136-41
Shokal v. Dunn
CB 141-53
United Plainsmen
omit (153-61)
adjudication & enforcement
Farm Investment
CB 161-70
Rettkowski v. DOE
CB 170-77
water distribution organizations
reading
omit (177-86)
loss of right
East Twin Lakes Ditches CB 186-95
Rencken v. Young
CB 195-203
prescription
Archuleta v. Gomez*
CB 203-10
transfer
Farmers Highline
CB 211-21
Bonham v. Morgan
omit (221-30
recapture & reuse
Dep’t of Ecology
omit (230-35)
Fuss v. Franks
omit (235-39)
Thayer v. City of Rawlings omit (239-46)
Eastern Permit Systems
Muench v. PSC
Tequesta v. Jupiter Inlet
abolition of riparian rights
Coffin v. Left Hand Ditch
Lux v. Haggin
Franco-American
Private Surface Use Rights
Baker v. Normanoch
Sniveley v. Jaber
Brannon v. Boldt*
CB 337
CB 337-44
CB 344-54
Supp. ○
Supp. ○
CB 504-09
Public Use Rights
navigation
Lakeside Park v. Forsmark Supp. ● *
State ex rel. Meek v. Hays CB 495-504
Elder v. Delcour
Supp. ○
Capune v. Robbins
Supp. ○ *
public ownership of bed and shore
State ex rel. Thornton v. Hay
Supp. ○
*
Arrington v. Texas*
Supp. ●
*
public trust doctrine
Illinois Central
CB 510-20
map
Supp. ○
State v. P.S.C.
Supp. ○
National Audubon I
CB 520-32
Muench v. P.S.C.
Supp. ●
Purdie v Att’y Gen.*
Supp. ●
?
Interstate Allocation
equitable apportionment
Kansas v. Colorado
Nebraska v. Wyoming
Colorado v. N.M. I
Colorado v. N.M. II
interstate compacts
Hinderlider v. La Plata
congressional apportionment
Arizona v. California
480-94
National Development
navigation power
U.S. v. Appalachian Elec.
U.S. v. Rio Grande
Rapanos
Clean Water Rule
takings
Florida Rock
CB 323-27
CB 327-36
2
CB 449-55
CB 455-62
CB 462-66
CB 466-70
CB 471-80
CB
Supp. ●
Supp. ○
CB 611-21
lecture
Supp. ○
Lucas
Supp. ●
navigation servitude
Chandler-Dunbar
Supp. *
U.S. v. Rands
.
CB 621-26
Kaiser Aetna v. U.S. II
CB 626-30
Sporhase v. Nebraska
CB 630-37
federal preemption & licensing
First Iowa Hydro-Elec.
CB 637-44
PUD No. 1
CB 644-53
federal projects
California v. U.S.
CB 653-66
Stockton East Water Dist.* CB 666-80
Federal Reserved Rights
Indian reserved rights
Winters v. U.S.
Colville Confed. Tribes*
federal reserved rights
Cappaert v. U.S.
U.S. v. New Mexico
adjudication
Colorado River WCD
U.S. v. Anderson
CB 680-89
CB 689-97
CB 697-701
CB
701-11
CB 711-21
omit (721-26
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MINERAL AND OIL & GAS LAW
Mineral & surface ownership
Edwards v. Sims
Edwards v. Lee’s Adm’r
Beulah Coal Mining v. Heihn
Reed v. Wylie I
Reed v. Wylie II
Moser v. U.S. Steel
Oklahoma ex rel. v. Butler
Andrus v. Charlestone Stone
Amoco v. So. Ute Tribe
Miller v. Ridgley
Ohio Oil Co. v. Indiana
People’s Gas Co. v. Tyner
Texas American Energy
Barnard v. Monongahela
Wronski v. Sun Oil
Baumgartner v. Sun Oil
Mineral leasing
Crain v. Pure Oil
Chandler v. French
Kelly v. Rainelle Coal
Barker v. Levy
Hummel v. McFadden
Chosar Corp. v. Owens
Prairie Oil & Gas Co.
Welborn v. Tidewater
Nutter v. Stockton
Hunt Oil Co. v. Kerbaugh
Bennett v. Hebener
Hutchison v. Sunbeam Coal
Owens v. Thompson
Dethloff v. Zeigler Coal
Langford v. Hughes
Kutsch v. Miller
*
*
*
*
*
*
✓
*
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Implied covenants -- oil & gas leases
Schwartzenberger
✓
Girolami v. Peoples
✓
Wilds v. Universal Resources ✓
Baldwin v. Blue Stem Oil
✓
Gard v. Kaiser
✓
Clifton v. Koontz
✓
Bachler v. Rosenthal
✓
Rogers v. Osborn
✓
Freeman v. Magnolia
✓
Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc
✓
Amoco Prod Co.
*
Superior Oil Co.
✓
Gillette v. Pepper Tank
✓
Bristol v. Colorado
✓
✓
*
*
*
*
*
✓
✓
✓
✓
Consideration
Browning v. Mountain States *
Lomex Corp. v. McBryde
*
Dennard v. Freeport Min. *
Termination
Davis v. Nokomis Quarry
Oil & gas conservation
Larsen v. Oil & Gas Conserv. ✓
Pattie v. Oil & Gas Conserv. ✓
RR. Comm’n v. Manziel
✓
Oil & gas prorationing
Chevron Oil Co.
Corley v. Mississippi State
Pickens v. R.R. Comm’n
Denver Prod. & Ref. Co.
RR. Comm’n v. Continental
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Oil & gas -- pooling & unitization
Jones v. Killingsworth
Amoco Prod. v. Underwood ✓
Anderson v. Corp. Comm’n ✓
Bibler Bros. Timber
✓
Wells v. Continental Oil
✓
Phillips Petroleum
✓
Baumgartner v. Gulf Oil
✓
Waseco Chem. & Supply
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Surface owner consent to extraction
Martin v. Kentucky Oak
*
U.S. v. Stearns Co.
*
Implied covenants -- mineral leases
Ionno v. Glen-Gery Corp.
*
4
✓
U.S. v. Stearns Coal
North American Coal
Texaco v. Short
UDMIA
*
*
*
*
Surface use by miner
Pittsburg & Midway Coal
Island Creek Coal
Cage Bros. v. McCormick
Large v. Clinchfield Coal
Bonds v. Sanchez-O’Brien
Murphy v. Amoco Prod.
*
*
*
*
✓
✓
Regulation of mining
Hodel v. Virginia Surface
McCoy-Elkhorn Coal
Commonwealth v. Barnes
Western Energy
Keystone Bituminous
*
*
*
*
*
Takings doctrine
Pennsylvania Coal
Hodel v. Virginia Surface
Keystone Bituminous
Florida Rock Indus.
Whitney Benefits
DNR v. Indiana Coal Counc.
*
*
*
*
*
*
Surface mine reclamation
In re Permanent...Regulation
Pennsylvania Coal v. Watt
Illinois South Project
Annaco, Inc. v. Hodel
U.S. v. Kennedy
NWF v. Hodel
Trustees for Alaska
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Surface mining regulatory interpretation
NWF v. Hodel
*
Illinois South Project
*
In re Permanent...Regulation *
NWF v. Hodel
*
NWF v. Hodel
*
In re Surface Mining Reg.
*
In re Surface Mining Reg.
*
NWF v. Lujan
*
Old Ben Coal
*
Shell Pipe Line
*
West Va. Coal Ass’n
*
Bragg v. Robertson
✓?
Kentuckians
✓?
[more recent valley fill case] * ?
5
Enforcement
Molinary v. Powell Mtn.
U.S. v. Rapoca Energy
*
*
Bankruptcy
U.S. v. Hubler
*
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Solar Power
Fontainebleu
Prah
[zoning]
[connection to grid]
Wind Power
[zoning]
[view nuisance]
*
[noise or RF nuisance]
[bird kills]
✓
✓
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