United States Ninth Circuit

In a quiet title action for land created by avulsion, the court's analysis should begin on the patent date of the land, and it should not consider pre-patent avulsive river movements.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/15/2001
• Decided 01/28/2002
• Published 01/28/2002

Judges

• Before RONEY,HUG and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General;  John C. Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General;  Jeffrey Dobbins, Patrick Barry, Kathryn E. Kovacs, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James T. Braselton, Phoenix, Arizona;  Charles W. Gurtler, Jr., Bullhead City, Arizona, for the defendants-appellees., Robert M. Hall, Pro se, Albuquerque, New Mexico, defendant-appellee.