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42 Envtl. L. [i] (2012)

handle is hein.journals/envlnw42 and id is 1 raw text is: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Lewis & Clark Law School
VOLUME 42                    WINTER 2012                     NUMBER 1
TRIBUTE
The Water Law Scholarship of Jim Huffman and Janet Neuman:
Prologue to the Festschrift    ...............................      1
Michael C Blumm
James L. Huffman Scholarship       ................................  13
Janet C. Neuman Scholarship       ..................................  17
Against the Current: Four Decades in Water Law and Policy.............  19
James L. Huffman
Going with the Flow: A Water Law Journey     ........................  29
Janet C Neuman
ARTICLES
The Legacy of Schodde v. Twin Falls Land and Water Company- The
Evolving Reasonable Appropriation Principle   ...................  37
A. Dan Tarlock
This Article examines an underappreciated 1912 United States
Supreme Court decision, Schodde v. Twin Fals Land and Water
Company, which refused to enforce a prior appropriation right
because it would have required dedicating the entire pre-dam current
of the Snake River to lift a small amount of water actually devoted to
beneficial use. Schodde both cleared a major legal barrier to dam
construction and gave rise to the reasonable appropriation rule. After
a long period of relative neglect, Schodde reemerged as an important
precedent as courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies began to
appreciate the inefficiencies of prior appropriation in an era of
increasing scarcity, a problem that has become more pressing as the
region confronts the real stresses of climate change. The case is a
classic example of the development of a judicially imposed
background limitation on a private property title. This tradition is now
in doubt as the United States Supreme Court has opened up the
prospect of an aggressive judicial takings doctrine. The Article's basic

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