(March 8, 2017, 10:28 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 7 affirmed a lower court’s partial summary judgment ruling that a Native American tribe’s reserved water rights include groundwater (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Coachella Valley Water District, et al., No. 15-55898, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 4009)....