| Title |
State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants : the United States of America and State of Nevada, interveners : State of Utah and State of New Mexico, impleaded defendants : report / Simon H. Rifkind, special master |
| Creator |
United States. Supreme Court |
| Subject |
Water rights; Water consumption; Rivers |
| OCR Text |
The record of this action is another chapter in the long history of controversy relating to the Colorado River. Suit was initiated by Arizona on August 13, 1952, by filing a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint against the State of California and seven public agencies of the State.1 On January 19, 1953, the motion, unopposed, was granted. |
| Publisher |
[Washington, D.C. : U.S. Supreme Court, 1960] |
| Contributors |
Rifkind, Simon H. |
| Date |
1960-12-05 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Digitization Specifications |
Image files generated by Photoshop CS from PDF files |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2004, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
| Holding Institution |
UNLV Libraries, Special Collection, 4505 Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 |
| Source Physical Dimensions |
ix, 433 p. ; 27 cm |
| Call Number |
KFA2847.5.C6 A337 1960 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s61835d5 |
| Setname |
wwdl_azvca |
| ID |
1120114 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61835d5 |
| Title |
page 101 |
| OCR Text |
101 practicable to apply than a mass allocation based on a supposedly fixed future supply. The only other suggestion advanced by California to support its contention that a prediction of future supply is relevant to the legal issues in this case is that such a prediction might shed light on the Congressional intention embodied in the Boulder Canyon Project Act. California argues that Congress intended Los Angeles to receive a substantial amount of water from the Colorado River and that the interpretation of the Project Act suggested in this Report is incorrect because, when applied to the future supply of water as estimated by California, it does not provide any mainstream water for Los Angeles. But the supply of water which will actually be available in the future for any state or any project does not provide the slightest insight into the intention of Congress when it passed the act in 1928. Obviously the relevant factor in determining Congressional intention is the supply of mainstream water which Congress thought would be available at the time it enacted the Project Act, not the supply which will in fact be available after 1960. Thus, assuming hypothetically the validity of California's argument that Congress intended Los Angeles to receive a substantial amount of Colorado River water which she would not receive under the interpretation of the Project Act proposed in the Report, this would not cast doubt on the proposed statutory interpretation if Los Angeles would have received the water which Congress intended had the supply conditions which Congress anticipated in 1928 actually prevailed. The Court could not rewrite the Project Act to compensate for an erroneous congressional estimate of water supply. And, for all of the uncertainty over the actual supply of water in the Colorado River, one thing that is clear is that the estimates of supply in 1928 were uniformly and substan- |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Source |
Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California |
| Resource Identifier |
112-UUM-COvAZ-SMRP_page 101.jpg |
| Setname |
wwdl_azvca |
| ID |
1119852 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61835d5/1119852 |
