In Re Determination Of Rights To Use Of Surface Waters Of Yakima River Drainage Basin by Supreme Court of Washington

In Re Determination Of Rights To Use Of Surface Waters Of Yakima River Drainage Basin

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This case involves a procedural due process issue that arises at an interlocutory phase of a complex statutory water rights adjudication of the surface waters in the Yakima River Basin. The issue is whether due process requires personal service of process on all individual water users who get their water under contract from water distributing entities, or whether service on those entities is sufficient. The trial court held that due process requirements were satisfied by service on the entities. We affirm.

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