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UNITED STATES v. IDAHO ex rel. DIRECTOR, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

No. 92-190.

508 U.S. 1 (1993)

113 S.Ct. 1893

123 L.Ed.2d 563

UNITED STATES v. IDAHO ex rel. DIRECTOR, IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 3, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey P. Minear argued the cause for the United States. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Starr, Acting Solicitor General Bryson, Acting Assistant Attorney General O'Meara, Edwin S. Kneedler, Peter C. Monson, Robert L. Klarquist, and William B. Lazarus.

Clive J. Strong, Deputy Attorney General of Idaho, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Larry EchoHawk, Attorney General, and David J. Barber, Peter R. Anderson, and Steven W. Strack, Deputy Attorneys General.*

Rehnquist, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which White, Blackmun, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, p. 9.

Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.

The McCarran Amendment allows a State to join the United States as a defendant in a comprehensive water right adjudication. 66 Stat. 560, 43 U. S. C. § 666(a). This case arises from Idaho's joinder of the United States in a suit for the adjudication of water rights in the Snake River. Under Idaho Code § 42-1414 (1990), all water right claimants, including...

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