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SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA En Banc IN RE THE GENERAL ADJUDICATION OF ALL RIGHTS TO USE WATER IN THE GILA RIVER SYSTEM AND SOURCE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) __________________________________) Arizona Supreme Court No. WC-07-0002-IR Maricopa County Superior Court No. W-1 W-2 W-3 W-4 (Consolidated Cases) Contested Case No. W1-208 O P I N I O N

Interlocutory Appeal from the Superior Court in Maricopa County The Honorable Eddward Ballinger, Jr., Judge Affirmed ________________________________________________________________ SACKS TIERNEY, P.A. By Judith M. Dworkin Marvin S. Cohen Attorneys for City of Tucson SOMACH SIMMONS & DUNN By Robert B. Hoffman Attorneys for Farmers Investment Co. and Farmers Water Co. (FICO) Scottsdale

Paradise Valley

THE SPARKS LAW FIRM, P.C. By Joe P. Sparks Susan B. Montgomery Robyn L. Interpreter Attorneys for Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Intervenors San Carlos Apache Tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation and Tonto Apache Tribe JONATHAN L. JANTZEN, TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL By Jonathan L. Jantzen, Acting Attorney General Attorneys for Tohono O'Odham Nation

Scottsdale

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RONALD J. TENPAS, ACTING ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL By John L. Smeltzer F. Patrick Barry Attorneys for the Department of Justice, United States of America RYLEY CARLOCK & APPLEWHITE, P.A. By L. William Staudenmaier, III Attorneys for Arizona Public Service Company

Washington, DC

Phoenix

SALMON LEWIS & WELDON, P.L.C. Phoenix By John B. Weldon, Jr. Lisa M. McKnight Attorneys for Salt River Valley Water Users' Association and Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District Jennifer K. Giff And Rodney B. Lewis And John T. Hestand Timothy L. Pierson Ruth E. Koester Ann Marie Chischilly And AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD, L.L.P. Washington, DC By Donald R. Pongrace Attorneys for Gila River Indian Community ________________________________________________________________ R Y A N, Justice Chandler Sacaton Sacaton

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