Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Dolge, Kathy
- Abstract:
- A collection of legal and otherwise relevant materials related to western water adjudications and other complex water litigation. The project has focused on case management, alternative dispute resolution, and the sharing of practical experience by a diverse group of judges, masters and referees who have participated in Dividing the Waters activities.
- Extent:
- 28.75 linear feet 23 cartons
- Language:
- The collection is in English .
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Dividing the Waters collection (WRCA 219). Water Resources Collections and Archives. Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of materials related to general stream adjudications, Native American reserved rights, law review and periodical articles, manuscripts, state-specific materials, and states water council minutes regarding Western United States water issues, rights, and law collected by a network of judges, special masters and referees who preside over western water adjudications and other complex water litigation.
- Biographical / historical:
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The 'Dividing the Waters Collection' is a collaboration of a network of judges, special masters and referees who preside over western water adjudications and other complex water litigation. The central purpose of the Dividing the Waters project has been to improve the management and outcome of this complex water-related litigation affecting western people and the region's environment. State trial judges have been most directly served by this project although state appellate judges, federal trial and appellate judges, and U.S. Supreme Court special masters are also involved in project activities.
Since its inception in 1993, the project has pursued five goals:
1. To share information about how the different states and courts have structured and conducted stream adjudications and other complex water law litigation;
2. To discuss some of the major problems judges confront in conducting these adjudications and cases;
3. To discuss what works and what does not work so that others do not have to make the same mistakes;
4. To benefit from the expertise of resource people who are involved in the many subject areas touched by these cases; and
5. To enable judges, masters, and referees to meet one another and develop lasting personal and professional relationships.
The project has focused on case management, alternative dispute resolution, and the sharing of practical experience by a diverse group of judges, masters and referees who have participated in Dividing the Waters activities.
Dividing the Waters has been supported by the Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and General Service Foundation. For more information, see www.dividingthewaters.org.
- Acquisition information:
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The collection was donated by the following three co-conveners on behalf of Dividing the Waters.
Justice Gregory Hobbs, Colorado Supreme Court
Judge Dan Hurlbutt Jr. (retired), Idaho District Court (Snake River Adjudication)
John E. Thorson, former Special Master, Arizona General Stream Adjudication
- Processing information:
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Collection number updated January 2019. Legacy collection number was MS 2003/1. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019 to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Processed by Paul Atwood, 2008.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged in the order it was kept by Dividing the Waters: General Stream Adjudications and Western Water Materials; Law Review Articles and Periodicals; Books; State-Specific Materials; Interstate Materials.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research. Select items are restricted for a ten year period.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Dividing the Waters collection (WRCA 219). Water Resources Collections and Archives. Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Riverside - Special Collections and University ArchivesPO Box 5900Riverside, CA 92517-5900, US
- Contact:
- (951) 827-3233