United States Didn’t Accept Trust Duty For Navajo Nation Water, Supreme Court Told

Mealey's (March 6, 2023, 12:59 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navajo Nation’s attempt to hold the federal government liable for breaching its trust duty to provide water for the tribe, including from the Colorado River, fails because the claim “does not rest on any specific trust duty that the government has expressly accepted,” the government argues in its March 3 reply brief on the merits in the U.S. Supreme Court....

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