A Law That Says Nothing New
Why enforcing America's oldest trust requires no new promises — only keeping the old ones
David Sullivan
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America's School Trust Library Catalog
A public render of what the Library holds: the legal-authority register, case-law texts, promoted figures, current book manifests, and named special collections. The source files remain in the Library's keeping; this page is the browsable card catalog. Some of these entries have since been read against the full primary opinion; where that reading corrected an entry, the corrected text is published in its row, and the state appendices in the legal reference manual record what was withdrawn and why.
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| Trustees of Vincennes University v. Indiana, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 268 (1852) | Primary source held | Earliest characterization, corrected: the McLean majority at *274 — title to the school lands "has never been considered as vested in the State," which has "no inherent power to sell them, or appropriate them to any other purpose than for the benefit of schools." The phrase "as the trustee to administer the trust," at *279-80, is Taney, C.J., dissenting; the attribution was corrected against the full opinion on June 10, 2026. | Ch. 1 (§ 1.2), Ch. 3 (§ 3.2) |
| Cooper v. Roberts, 59 U.S. (18 How.) 173 (1855) | Primary source held | Section-16 grant is a compact "unalterable except by consent"; "sacred obligation" on the receiving state's public faith; per the filed Response, the Michigan grant (5 Stat. 59) it construes is "in all material respects indistinguishable" from Oregon's. | Ch. 1 (§ 1.7), Ch. 3 (§ 3.2) |
| Ervien v. United States, 251 U.S. 41 (1919) | Primary source held | Diversion of New Mexico trust proceeds to promotional purposes held an enforceable breach of trust; the enumeration of purposes "necessarily exclusive of any other purpose" (at 47); the dedication "special and exact" (at 47-48). The "odious dereliction ... breach of trust in the State" phrase at *48 is the Court recounting the District Court's view while affirming its result. | Ch. 3 (§ 3.2), Ch. 5, Ch. 14 |
| Lassen v. Arizona ex rel. Arizona Highway Dept., 385 U.S. 458, 466-67 (1967) | Primary source held | Full appraised value owed in money on an intra-governmental taking (at 469); the Act's restrictions read so that "only those beneficiaries profit from the trust" (at 467); the public-notice and auction machinery does not reach the State's own highway acquisitions (at 465). The "definite and specific ... separate and independent" language is United States v. Ervien, 246 F. 277, 279, quoted in Lassen at 467. | Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 8, Ch. 9 |
| Andrus v. Utah, 446 U.S. 500 (1980) | Primary source held | 446 U.S. 500 (1980) — majority (Stevens, J.): the grant a "solemn agreement" analogized to a contract between private parties (507), the indemnity right existing to give the State "the benefit of the bargain" (508). Powell, J., dissenting, at 523: "solemn bilateral compacts between each State and the Federal Government," imposing "a binding and perpetual obligation to use the granted lands for the support of public education." The dissent pin was corrected from 522-23 to 523; Cascadia Wildlands quoted the Powell narrative at 522-23 and neither of those two phrases. See the Utah appendix. | Ch. 1 (§§ 1.7-1.8), Ch. 3 |
| ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish, 490 U.S. 605, 626 (1989) | Needs verification | Modern capstone: Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 27-234(B) invalid as to nonhydrocarbon mineral leases for nonconformity with Enabling Act § 28 (at 633). Not a beneficiary-standing case: the Court found the state-court plaintiffs would not satisfy federal standing requirements (at 616-17) and reached the merits on the lessees' certiorari petition (at 623-24). | Ch. 3 (§§ 3.2, 3.6), Ch. 8, Ch. 12, Ch. 17 |
| United States v. Morrison, 240 U.S. 192, 205 (1916) | Primary source held | "A definitive rule of construction" for school grants, reviewing the Oregon grant: Congress "used the same phrase substantially in nearly every one of the school grants ... manifest intention to place the states on the same footing"; carries Cooper to Oregon. Anchor of the filed Response's Section C. | Ch. 1, Ch. 3 (§ 3.5) |
| Papasan v. Allain, 478 U.S. 265 (1986) | Primary source held | Cited in filed Response within the post-Morrison body of law recognizing enforceable federal-state school trusts (Mississippi Sixteenth Section context). | Ch. 3, Ch. 12, Ch. 14 |
| Alamo Land & Cattle Co. v. Arizona, 424 U.S. 295 (1976) | Primary source held | Proceeds remain subject to the same trust as the lands; United States retains "a continuing interest in the administration of both the lands and the funds." | Ch. 1 (§ 1.8), Ch. 3 (§ 3.6(f)), Ch. 14 |
| Borax Ltd. v. Los Angeles, 296 U.S. 10, 22 (1935) | Primary source held | "[A] question which concerns the ... effect of an act done by the United States" is "necessarily a federal question" — choice-of-law anchor of the filed Response. | Ch. 1, Ch. 14, Ch. 16 |
| Wilcox v. Jackson, 38 U.S. 498, 513 (1839) | Primary source held | Land once "legally appropriated to any purpose ... becomes severed from the mass of public lands" — used in filed Response to distinguish the sovereign-title Public Trust Doctrine. | Ch. 4 |
| Oregon ex rel. State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co., 429 U.S. 363, 374 (1977) | Primary source held | Sovereign-lands title "is conferred not by Congress, but by the Constitution itself" — the contrast case for the federal direct grant (filed Response Section D). | Ch. 4 |
| Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810) | Primary source held | A sovereign cannot revoke its own grants (Contracts Clause). | Ch. 3, Ch. 17 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819) | Needs verification | A sovereign cannot impair a charter it has granted. | Ch. 3 |
| Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. 127 (1844) | Primary source held | American courts apply the inherited English charitable-trust framework. | Ch. 3, Ch. 12 |
| Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892) | Primary source held | No "irrepealable contract in a conveyance of property by a grantor in disregard of a public trust"; government cannot legislate away its trust obligations. | Ch. 3, Ch. 15 |
| Marbury v. Madison (as quoted in Pendleton) | Cited in briefing | "Province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is" — justiciability floor. | Ch. 15 |
| State of Utah v. Kleppe, 586 F.2d 756 (10th Cir. 1978), rev'd sub nom. Andrus v. Utah, 446 U.S. 500 (1980) | Primary source held | "The nature of the Congressional land grant program was 'bilateral' in effect"; "The specific purpose was to create a binding permanent trust which would generate financial aid to support the public school systems of the 'public land' states." Cite only with the subsequent history: the judgment was reversed in 1980, and the passages survive as the Tenth Circuit's articulation rather than as a governing rule. See the Utah appendix. | Ch. 1 (§ 1.7), Ch. 3 |
| State of Utah v. Andrus, 486 F. Supp. 995 (D. Utah 1979) | Primary source held | "A bilateral compact," not a unilateral gift; implied right of access — "without access the state could not develop the trust lands ... This Congress did not intend." | Ch. 1 (§ 1.7), Ch. 3 |
| Branson School District RE-82 v. Romer, 958 F. Supp. 1501 (D. Colo. 1997), aff'd, 161 F.3d 619 (10th Cir. 1998) (filed Response pin: 633) | Primary source held | Compact an enforceable trust, not aspirational policy; Restatement applies to state trustees; school-district beneficiary standing; CO Amendment 16 reforms sustained within the trust. | Ch. 1, Ch. 3, Ch. 12, Ch. 18 |
| State of Oregon ex rel. Division of State Lands v. Bureau of Land Management, 876 F.2d 1419 (9th Cir. 1989) | Primary source held | History of 43 U.S.C. § 851 et seq. and the lieu-lands selection process; Elliott exchange background. | Ch. 1 (§§ 1.1, 1.8) |
| Savage v. Glendale Union High School Dist. No. 205, 343 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 2003) | Primary source held | Cited in filed Response within the post-Morrison enforceable-trust body of law. | Ch. 3, Ch. 12 |
| Sabine River Authority v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 951 F.2d 669 (5th Cir. 1992) | Primary source held | Held in the Library's federal case-law files. No hornbook use is assigned, and the holding has not been confirmed against the primary. | Not recorded |
| State v. University of Alaska, 624 P.2d 807, 813 (Alaska 1981) | Primary source held | 624 P.2d 807, 813 (Alaska 1981) — park inclusion of university trust land without compensation held a breach of a federal trust; at *813 the court applies Lassen's "only those beneficiaries profit from the trust" (quoting 385 U.S. at 467) and adopts Scott on Trusts § 170 ("solely in the interest of the beneficiaries"). | Not recorded |
| State v. Weiss, 706 P.2d 681, 683 (Alaska 1985) | Primary source held | 706 P.2d 681, 683 (Alaska 1985) — state may not extinguish a trust by absorbing its function into general government; "without trust property there can be no trust." | Not recorded |
| Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 v. Superior Court, 157 Ariz. 537, 760 P.2d 537 (1988) | Primary source held | 157 Ariz. 537, 760 P.2d 537 (1988) — condemnation of school trust land by state actors, including a beneficiary school district, barred; decided on Ariz. Const. art. 10 alone, on independent state grounds, declining to follow Lassen. The phrase "is not state land," formerly carried here, does not appear in the opinion; see the Arizona appendix. | Not recorded |
| Forest Guardians v. Wells (Ariz. 2001) | Primary source held | (Ariz. 2001) — cited in filed Response (post-Morrison body of law). Full citation verified: Guardians v. Wells, 201 Ariz. 255, 34 P.3d 364 (2001) (majority + Martone, J., dissent). | Not recorded |
| Mayer Unified School District v. Winkleman, 219 Ariz. 562, 201 P.3d 523 (2009) | Primary source held | 219 Ariz. 562, 201 P.3d 523 (2009) — school districts sued the Land Commissioner over ~900 uncompensated "09 easements" (1929-1967); claims held time-barred, accrual at Lassen II (1967); continuing-violation theory rejected (the duty to secure compensation "arises only once"). Beneficiary-suit limitations counter-precedent. | Not recorded |
| Idaho Watersheds Project v. State Board of Land Commissioners, 133 Idaho 55, 982 P.2d 358 (1999) | Primary source held | 133 Idaho 55, 982 P.2d 358 (1999) — per curiam original proceeding; writ of prohibition granted barring implementation of H.J.R. 6 (the 1998 voter-approved package amending art. 9, §§ 4 and 8) for combining "incongruous and essentially unrelated" amendments in violation of art. 20, § 2 (separate-vote provision). | the ID appendix retrenchment history |
| Idaho Watersheds Project v. State Bd. of Land Comm'rs (IWP II), 133 Idaho 64 (1999) | Primary source held | 133 Idaho 64 (1999) — Idaho Code § 58-310B invalid: the legislature itself may not direct the trustee toward non-beneficiary interests ("the schools, the state, and Idaho livestock industry"). | Not recorded |
| Selkirk-Priest Basin Ass'n, Inc. v. State ex rel. Andrus (SPBA I), 127 Idaho 239, 899 P.2d 949 (1995) | Primary source held | 127 Idaho 239, 899 P.2d 949 (1995) — environmental groups lack standing to represent the school endowment trust's direct beneficiaries, identified (per Moon) as the schools/school districts; public-trust-doctrine claim survives on recreational navigability. | Not recorded |
| Selkirk-Priest Basin Ass'n v. State ex rel. Batt (SPBA II), 128 Idaho 831, 919 P.2d 1032 (1996) | Primary source held | 128 Idaho 831, 919 P.2d 1032 (1996) — members' recreational/aesthetic use is no distinct-and-palpable injury; APA review of Land Board timber sales statutorily barred; no Declaratory Judgment Act bootstrap. | Not recorded |
| State ex rel. Plaquemines Parish School Board v. Plaquemines Parish Government, 652 So. 2d 1, 93 La.App. 4 Cir. 2339 (La. App. 4 Cir. Dec. 15, 1994; rehearing supplement Apr. 7, 1995), writ denied, 656 So. 2d 1015 (La. 1995) | Primary source held | 652 So. 2d 1, 93 La.App. 4 Cir. 2339 (La. App. 4 Cir. Dec. 15, 1994; rehearing supplement Apr. 7, 1995), writ denied, 656 So. 2d 1015 (La. 1995) — "school trust lands can be alienated only where it is of benefit to school in some manner." Caption/court/year verified on harvest. | Not recorded |
| Ebey v. Avoyelles Parish School Board, 861 So. 2d 910, 2003-765 (La. App. 3 Cir. 12/17/03) | Primary source held | 861 So. 2d 910, 2003-765 (La. App. 3 Cir. 12/17/03) — Section 16 lands held in trust, school boards "in the manner of a statutory trustee"; parent standing affirmed. | Not recorded |
| Clark v. Stephen D. Lee Foundation, 887 So. 2d 798 (Miss. 2004) | Primary source held | 887 So. 2d 798 (Miss. 2004) — Sixteenth Section lease consideration must be benchmarked to "the reasonable market value of the leased land." | Not recorded |
| Jones County School Dist. v. Covington County School Dist., 352 So. 3d 1123 (Miss. 2022) | Primary source held | 352 So. 3d 1123 (Miss. 2022) — cited in filed Response (post-Morrison body of law). | Not recorded |
| Wayne County School Dist. v. Quitman School Dist., 346 So. 3d 853 (Miss. 2022) | Primary source held | 346 So. 3d 853 (Miss. 2022) — the holding Jones County reaffirms (Sixteenth Section funds belong to the township's beneficiaries; proportionate-share distribution), with the dissent. | Not recorded |
| Hill v. Thompson, 564 So. 2d 1 (Miss. 1989); Lambert v. State, 211 Miss. 129, 51 So. 2d 201 (1951) | Primary source held | Hill voided ninety-nine-year sixteenth-section leases let for nominal one-time payments as "grossly inadequate" consideration; Lambert sustained an 1873 deed on a twenty-five-year adverse-possession presumption. The "spoliation" label the register carries for the pair was a research-file gloss: neither opinion uses the word. Verified against the full opinions, June 7, 2026; see the Granting Instruments chapter, § 1.3. | Not recorded |
| Montanans for the Responsible Use of the School Trust v. State (Montrust I), 1999 MT 263 | Primary source held | 1999 MT 263 — four statutes (§§ 77-1-130, 77-5-211, 77-6-304, 77-6-305) and the Department's below-market cabin-site rental policy struck; § 77-1-208 sustained on its face; the court declined to adopt a trust-specific standard of review (¶¶ 18-19) and invalidated the enactments under the ordinary presumption of constitutionality; private-attorney-general doctrine adopted. The "presumption of constitutionality does not save breaching enactments" proposition formerly carried here is not in the opinion and is withdrawn; see the Montana appendix. | Not recorded |
| Montanans for the Responsible Use of the School Trust v. Darkenwald, 2005 MT 190, 328 Mont. 105 | Primary source held | 2005 MT 190, 328 Mont. 105 — General Fund commingling sustained on the State's ability to account (¶¶ 29-30) and the challenger's failure of proof (¶ 35); SB 495's sale of a thirty-year mineral royalty stream sustained (¶ 64). Nelson, J., dissenting, ¶ 71: the scheme "robs Peter (future generations of school children) to pay Paul (present day school children)." The field's leading counter-precedent. There is no reconciliation mechanism in the opinion. | Not recorded |
| Friends of the Wild Swan v. DNRC, 2005 MT 351, 330 Mont. 186 | Primary source held | 2005 MT 351, 330 Mont. 186 — § 77-1-202, MCA does not imply a harvest-level financial accounting duty (¶¶ 23, 28); the "largest measure of legitimate and reasonable advantage" is not exclusively economic (¶¶ 20-21). The trust-acceptance sentence at ¶ 8 is a recital of Montrust I, ¶ 13; cite Montrust I for that proposition. | Not recorded |
| Department of State Lands v. Pettibone, 702 P.2d 948 (Mont. 1985) | Primary source held | 702 P.2d 948 (Mont. 1985) — school trust lands "subject to a different set of rules than other public lands"; appurtenant water rights are trust interests requiring compensation. | Not recorded |
| Jerke v. State Dept. of Lands, 597 P.2d 49 (Mont. 1979) | Primary source held | 597 P.2d 49 (Mont. 1979) — lessee-preference right unconstitutional as applied; only competitive bidding secures full market value. | Not recorded |
| State ex rel. Dept. of Highways v. Burlingame, 597 P.2d 51 (Mont. 1979) | Primary source held | 597 P.2d 51 (Mont. 1979) — not a school-trust case: an eminent-domain attorney-fees decision (a condemnee recovering less than the State's final offer did not "prevail"; no fees; Sheehy, J., dissenting). No school-trust use; the sustained-yield doctrine belongs to Jerke, 597 P.2d 49. Holding corrected June 10, 2026. | Not recorded |
| State v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District, 147 Neb. 289, 23 N.W.2d 300 (1946) | Primary source held | 147 Neb. 289, 23 N.W.2d 300 (1946) — lands "held in trust ... under a contractual and constitutional obligation"; full value required; leasing authority "limited by the obligation to preserve the trust property inviolate." | Not recorded |
| State ex rel. Ebke v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds, 154 Neb. 244, 47 N.W.2d 520 (1951) | Primary source held | 154 Neb. 244, 47 N.W.2d 520 (1951) — constitutional incorporation rule: trustee status fixed by constitution makes breach of trust "a violation of the Constitution itself," "invalidating the legislation authorizing the breach." | Not recorded |
| Propst v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds, 156 Neb. 226, 55 N.W.2d 653 (1952) | Primary source held | 156 Neb. 226, 55 N.W.2d 653 (1952) — nullity rule (unconstitutional statute "void from its enactment"); third-party-notice rule ("[a]nyone dealing with the school lands must do so with knowledge of and subject to the trust obligation"). | Not recorded |
| State ex rel. Ebke v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds (Ebke II), 159 Neb. 79, 65 N.W.2d 392 (1954) | Primary source held | The fee sequel to Ebke: the attorney's fee and expenses of the Ebke litigation were disallowed as a charge on the school-lands trust fund, the litigation having been conducted "for the personal benefit of the appellee Ebke, and not for the benefit of the school lands trust fund." Named in the Library's Nebraska source list without a citation; identified and read against the full opinion in the Nebraska appendix. | Not recorded |
| Asplund v. Hannett, 31 N.M. 641, 249 P. 1074 (1926) | Primary source held | 31 N.M. 641, 249 P. 1074 (1926) — historical standing baseline for trust enforcement (Ferguson Act context); the case Forest Guardians revisits. | Not recorded |
| State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Walker, 61 N.M. 374, 301 P.2d 317 (1956) | Primary source held | 61 N.M. 374, 301 P.2d 317 (1956) — trust compensation rules apply to internal state takings; contrary AG opinions disapproved. | Not recorded |
| Forest Guardians v. Powell, 130 N.M. 368, 24 P.3d 803, 2001-NMCA-028 | Primary source held | 130 N.M. 368, 24 P.3d 803, 2001-NMCA-028 — charitable-trust framing channels enforcement to the AG; standing denied to conservation groups and parent-plaintiffs; Bustamante separate opinion: the majority "essentially voids that provision of [the Enabling Act]." | Not recorded |
| State ex rel. King v. Lyons, 2011-NMSC-004, 248 P.3d 878 | Primary source held | 2011-NMSC-004, 248 P.3d 878 — land exchanges void where structured to bypass public-auction/highest-bidder requirements; transactions unwound by mandamus. | Not recorded |
| Oklahoma Education Ass'n, Inc. v. Nigh, 642 P.2d 230 (Okla. 1982) | Primary source held | 642 P.2d 230 (Okla. 1982) — "No Act of the Legislature can validly alter, modify or diminish the State's duty as Trustee"; "sacred trust" designation irrevocably incorporates all rules of trust law; maximum-benefit standard. (Trial judge Cannon: "Boys, the party is over.") | Not recorded |
| Kanaly v. State ex rel. Janklow, 368 N.W.2d 819, 823 (S.D. 1985) | Primary source held | 368 N.W.2d 819, 823 (S.D. 1985) — "special, permanent and perpetual trust ... the state is the trustee is beyond question"; uncompensated inter-agency transfer unconstitutional and in violation of the Enabling Act. | Not recorded |
| Plateau Mining Co. v. Utah Division of State Lands & Forestry, 802 P.2d 720 (Utah 1990) | Primary source held | 802 P.2d 720 (Utah 1990) — "in administering the school trust lands, the State acts as a trustee and its duties are the same as the duties of other trustees" (728); no implied waiver of the higher royalty by prior acceptance of less (731); estoppel generally unavailable against the State. The Court expressly declined to reach the limitations question and left it to the trial court (732); the case is not authority for a no-limitations rule. The word "fiduciary" does not appear in the opinion. | Not recorded |
| National Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Board of State Lands, 869 P.2d 909 (Utah 1993) | Primary source held | 869 P.2d 909 (Utah 1993) — income maximization the controlling duty; deviation requires compensation to the trust; buyer-procured appraisal "suspect on its face"; trust binds use of the land itself. | Not recorded |
| Jensen v. Dinehart, 645 P.2d 32 (Utah) | Primary source held | 645 P.2d 32 (Utah 1982) — majority (Hall, C.J.): school-section mineral proceeds are properly placed in the currently expendable Uniform School Fund (*35); the disposition is "Remanded for entry of judgment in conformity herewith." Oaks, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part (*37): the Jones Act shows no intent to remove or modify the trust restriction Congress imposed on Enabling Act sections. "Reversed," formerly carried here, is a curatorial header and not the court's word. | Not recorded |
| County of Skamania v. State, 102 Wn.2d 127, 132, 685 P.2d 576 (1984) | Primary source held | 102 Wn.2d 127, 132, 685 P.2d 576 (1984) — "real, enforceable trusts ... same fiduciary duties applicable to private trustees"; divided loyalty (benefit to timber industry/economy at beneficiaries' expense) is breach; full value on transfer of trust assets including contract rights. | Not recorded |
| Conservation Northwest v. Commissioner of Public Lands (v. Franz), 200 Wn.2d 8 (Wash. 2022) | Primary source held | (v. Franz), 200 Wn.2d 8 (Wash. 2022) — unanimous reaffirmation of Skamania; the doctrine is live 21st-century law. | Not recorded |
| Okanogan County v. State (Wash. 2015) | Primary source held | (Wash. 2015) — cited in filed Response (post-Morrison body of law). Caption verified: Public Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County v. State, 182 Wash. 2d 519, 342 P.3d 308 (2015). | Not recorded |
| Goldmark v. McKenna, 172 Wn.2d 568, 259 P.3d 1095 (2011) (decided Sept. 1, 2011; amended Nov. 18, 2011) | Primary source held | 172 Wn.2d 568, 259 P.3d 1095 (2011) (decided Sept. 1, 2011; amended Nov. 18, 2011) — Commissioner of Public Lands sought mandamus after the Attorney General refused to represent him on appeal; the AG's duty to represent state officers. Directly parallel to the A177308 AG-defense question. | Not recorded |
| Director of the Office of State Lands & Investments v. Merbanco, Inc. (Wyo. 2003) | Primary source held | (Wyo. 2003) — cited in filed Response (post-Morrison body of law). Full citation verified: 2003 WY 73, 70 P.3d 241. | Not recorded |
| Sherman v. Buick, 50 Cal. 421 (1875) | Primary source held | 50 Cal. 421 (1875) — carried in an earlier table of authorities with a blank page reference; the use was not carried into the filed response. | Not recorded |
| North Carolina School Boards Ass'n v. Moore, 359 N.C. 474, 614 S.E.2d 504 (2005) | Primary source held | 359 N.C. 474, 614 S.E.2d 504 (2005) — a constitutional duty present in the text but held non-self-executing; "a duty without an enforcement engine is a duty deferred." | Not recorded |
| Schneider v. Hutchinson, 35 Or 253, 258 (1899) | Primary source held | 35 Or 253, 258 (1899) — Admission Act grant "an absolute grant, vesting title in the state for a special purpose"; the special purpose is the source of the obligation. | Not recorded |
| Robertson v. Geer, 42 Or 183 (1902) | Primary source held | 42 Or 183 (1902) — SLB held and managed lands (historical/descriptive use in State's summary-judgment motion). | Not recorded |
| State v. Warner Valley Stock Co., 56 Or 283 (1910) | Primary source held | 56 Or 283 (1910) — deeds issued in violation of statutory procedure void; SLB bound by statutory framework (swamp lands). | Not recorded |
| Grand Prize Hydraulic Mines v. Boswell, 83 Or 1, 6-7 (1917) | Primary source held | 83 Or 1, 6-7 (1917) — "[T]he school lands granted to the state of Oregon are a trust for the benefit of public education" — under an act that nowhere uses the word "trust." | Not recorded |
| State Land Board v. Lee, 84 Or 431, 441-42 (1917) | Primary source held | 84 Or 431, 441-42 (1917) — "not a mere dry trustee" (at 441-42, verified against the primary source June 8, 2026; an earlier note placing the phrase at 439 was mistaken, 439 being the statutory-loan framework); active-trustee classification; the statutory limitations exemption applies to Land Board administration of the Common School Fund. | Not recorded |
| Holmes v. Olcott, 96 Or 33 (1920) | Primary source held | 96 Or 33 (1920) — appropriations doctrine (State's IV.E support). | Not recorded |
| Putnam v. Norblad, 134 Or 433 (1930) | Needs verification | 134 Or 433 (1930) — mandamus and political-question case, cited by the State as lead authority and distinguished here as pre-modern doctrine; it recognized a ministerial-duty exception. The parallel citation is unsettled in the Library's records ("295 P 949" and "293 P. 940" both appear) and is not asserted. | Not recorded |
| Eagle Point Irrigation District v. Cowden, 137 Or 121, 124 (1931) | Primary source held | 137 Or 121, 124 (1931) — "execution of a trust of the highest nature, which has been created by the fundamental law of this state"; transactional fiduciary review of SLB loans. The strongest sentence in Oregon school-trust jurisprudence. | Not recorded |
| Wood v. Honeyman, 178 Or 484, 555-57 (1946) | Primary source held | 178 Or 484, 555-57 (1946) — Oregon's general law of trusts. Verification note, June 7, 2026: the quotation formerly carried here ("A trustee is under a duty ... all doubts will be resolved against him") is a party's rendering and is not in the opinion; the opinion's own language on a trustee's records is at 555-56. | Not recorded |
| Johnson v. Department of Revenue, 292 Or 373, 382 (1982) | Primary source held | 292 Or 373, 382 (1982) — constitutional/statutory CSF distinction; "determination of the proper use of common school funds is a legislative one" AND the same passage imposes the duty "to derive the greatest net profit for the people of this state" (the sentence the State's summary-judgment motion omits). | Not recorded |
| Lindland v. United Business Investments, Inc., 298 Or 318, 327 (1984) | Needs verification | 298 Or 318, 327 (1984) — burden allocation for a private commercial fiduciary under the Restatement (Second) of Agency; cited by the State and distinguished as a different relationship. The parallel citation is unsettled in the Library's records ("692 P2d 91" and "693 P.2d 20" both appear) and is not asserted. | Not recorded |
| Pendleton School District 16R v. State, 345 Or 596 (2009) | Primary source held | 345 Or 596 (2009) — courts may (and must, following Marbury) declare legislative non-compliance with Article VIII school-funding obligations. Siuslaw 97J — lead plaintiff in 24CV38372 — was a plaintiff. | Not recorded |
| Comcast of Oregon II, Inc. v. City of Eugene, 346 Or 238, 250 (2009) | Primary source held | 346 Or 238, 250 (2009) — "a public body's act of adopting a law or rule in violation of an applicable procedural or substantive requirement is not a tort under ORS 30.260(8)." Controlling on OTCA recharacterization. | Not recorded |
| Kennedy v. Wheeler, 356 Or 518 (2014) | Primary source held | 356 Or 518 (2014) — law-of-the-case doctrine (filed Response's vehicle for binding the Sept. 5, 2025 ruling forward). | Not recorded |
| Couey v. Atkins, 357 Or 460 (2015) | Primary source held | 357 Or 460 (2015) — initiative-petition mootness case: ORS 14.175 held validly enacted; Oregon's "judicial power" clause (Art. VII (Amended), § 1) imposes no Article III-style case-or-controversy or mootness limit, overruling Yancy v. Shatzer (2004). Not a political-question case; corrected June 10, 2026. | Not recorded |
| Moro v. State, 357 Or 167 (2015); Strunk v. PERB, 338 Or 145 (2005); James v. State, 366 Or 732 (2020) | Primary source held | 357 Or 167 (2015); Strunk v. PERB, 338 Or 145 (2005); James v. State, 366 Or 732 (2020) — anti-entrenchment doctrine (State's IV.E); the recognized-exceptions opening (statutory contracts; federal-law obligations). | Not recorded |
| Cascadia Wildlands v. Department of State Lands, 365 Or 750 (2019) | Primary source held | 365 Or 750 (2019) — "Under the Admission Act, the state is the trustee of the lands granted to it" (758); no "core function" of revenue maximization invalidating a withdrawal statute, but "the 'greatest benefit' mandate may require the State Land Board to maximize net profit, for example, by obtaining the best price for the authorized sale of timber" (766). | Not recorded |
| Chernaik v. Brown, 367 Or 143, 156 (2020) | Primary source held | 367 Or 143, 156 (2020) — Oregon Public Trust Doctrine (sovereign-title) case; the filed Response's contrast case distinguishing the federal direct-grant trust. | Not recorded |
| Eklof v. Persson, 369 Or 531 (2022); Larsen v. Selmet, Inc., 371 Or 457 (2023) | Primary source held | 369 Or 531 (2022); Larsen v. Selmet, Inc., 371 Or 457 (2023) — leave-to-amend standards (procedural reserve). | Not recorded |
| Advocates for School Trust Lands v. State, 346 Or App 668 (2026) (Jan. 28, 2026) | Primary source held | 346 Or App 668 (2026) (Jan. 28, 2026) — schoolchildren-beneficiary standing under Art. VIII; challenges to the validity of laws are not tort claims subject to the Oregon Tort Claims Act (note 9 at 684 remanded the lawmaking question). The Oregon Supreme Court denied review on July 23, 2026 (S072734); the decision is final. | Not recorded |
| Hanggi v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 132 Or App 601 (1995), rev. dismissed as improvidently granted, 322 Or 573 (1996) | Primary source held | 132 Or App 601 (1995), rev. dismissed as improvidently granted, 322 Or 573 (1996) — statutory-trust (PERF) fiduciary breach treated as OTCA tort; the State's anchor, distinguished by Advocates / Comcast. | Not recorded |
| Evergreen West Business Center v. Emmert, 254 Or App 361 (2012), rev'd on other grounds, 354 Or 790 (2014) | Needs verification | 254 Or App 361 (2012), rev'd on other grounds, 354 Or 790 (2014) — recital of the elements of a private-party fiduciary duty; distinguished. The parallel citation "327 P3d 568" may belong to the 2014 reversal and is not asserted. | Not recorded |
| Bieker v. Ludwick, 343 Or App 1 (2025) | Primary source held | 343 Or App 1 (2025) — UTC accounting limits in a private revocable trust; distinguished (ORS 130.005(2)(e) excludes public bodies). | Not recorded |
| Letter Opinion, Feb. 26, 2024 (23CV39056) | Primary source held | (23CV39056) — dismissed on OTCA-tort + notice grounds; reversed in relevant part by Advocates v. State. | Not recorded |
| Letter Opinion, Mar. 6, 2025 (24CV38372) | Primary source held | 24CV38372 — standing found for districts and students under the trust theory; failure to state a claim denied on the 2024 claims; the trust-characterization and beneficiary-identity questions expressly reserved. | Not recorded |
| Letter Opinion, Sept. 5, 2025 (24CV38372) | Primary source held | 24CV38372 — Common School Fund claims held governed by common-law trust principles. Superseded at the trial level by the letter opinion of July 24, 2026, which granted the State summary judgment and canceled the trial. | Not recorded |
| Plaintiffs' response and cross-motion for partial summary judgment, Siuslaw School District 97J et al. v. State of Oregon, Coos County No. 24CV38372, filed May 29, 2026 | Other | Held in the Library's court-filings collection with the Crowe declaration and the Admission Act exhibit. The positions in it are the parties', not the Library's. | Not recorded |
| N.M. Att'y Gen. Op. No. 3454 (1922) and Op. No. 64 (1931) | Cited in briefing | and Op. No. 64 (1931) — took the position the state need not pay for highway rights-of-way over trust lands; disapproved by Walker (1956). The field's clearest documented example of AG opinions siding with the sovereign against the trust — direct Ch. 13 material. Source: the New Mexico state dossier. Cited in briefing. | Not recorded |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 (May 20, 1785) | Needs verification | May 20, 1785 — Section 16 reserved "for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township." The exact wording is not yet confirmed against the primary text. Ch. 1 (§ 1.2). | Not recorded |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (July 13, 1787) | Needs verification | July 13, 1787 — Art. 3 ("schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged"); compact preamble ("forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent"). The exact wording is not yet confirmed against the primary text. Ch. 1 (§ 1.2), Ch. 14. | Not recorded |
| Ohio Enabling Act of 1802 | Needs verification | First Section-16 follower; "in trust" and "for no other use, intent or purpose whatever." Cited in briefing; the citation is not yet confirmed against the primary text. Ch. 1. | Not recorded |
| Louisiana: Act of Feb. 20, 1811, 2 Stat. 641; Act of Apr. 8, 1812, 2 Stat. 701. Ch. 1 (§ 1.3). | Other | Act of Feb. 20, 1811, 2 Stat. 641; Act of Apr. 8, 1812, 2 Stat. 701. Ch. 1 (§ 1.3). | Not recorded |
| Mississippi: Enabling Act of Mar. 1, 1817, 3 Stat. 348; admission Act of Dec. 10, 1817. Ch. 1 (§ 1.3). | Other | Enabling Act of Mar. 1, 1817, 3 Stat. 348; admission Act of Dec. 10, 1817. Ch. 1 (§ 1.3). | Not recorded |
| Michigan: 5 Stat. 59 (the grant construed in Cooper). Ch. 1. | Other | 5 Stat. 59 (the grant construed in Cooper). Ch. 1. | Not recorded |
| Oregon Admission Act, Act of Feb. 14, 1859, ch. 33, § 4, 11 Stat. 383 | Other | Act of Feb. 14, 1859, ch. 33, § 4, 11 Stat. 383 — "for the use of schools"; compact clause ("if accepted, shall be obligatory on the United States and upon the said State of Oregon"). The Act and Oregon's acceptance are held in the Library's court-filings collection as a filed exhibit. Ch. 1 (§ 1.4), Ch. 3. | Not recorded |
| Nebraska Enabling Act of Apr. 19, 1864, 13 Stat. 47. Ch. 1. | Other | of Apr. 19, 1864, 13 Stat. 47. Ch. 1. | Not recorded |
| Colorado Enabling Act of Mar. 3, 1875, 18 Stat. 474. Ch. 1. | Other | of Mar. 3, 1875, 18 Stat. 474. Ch. 1. | Not recorded |
| Omnibus Enabling Act of Feb. 22, 1889, 25 Stat. 676 (MT, ND, SD, WA) | Other | of Feb. 22, 1889, 25 Stat. 676 (MT, ND, SD, WA) — in-trust grant, permanent fund, appraisal, minimum-price. Ch. 1 (§ 1.4); the field's most-litigated instrument. | Not recorded |
| Idaho Admission Act of July 3, 1890, 26 Stat. 215. Ch. 1. | Other | of July 3, 1890, 26 Stat. 215. Ch. 1. | Not recorded |
| Utah Enabling Act of July 16, 1894, 28 Stat. 107. Ch. 1 (§ 1.5). | Other | of July 16, 1894, 28 Stat. 107. Ch. 1 (§ 1.5). | Not recorded |
| Ferguson Act of 1898, 30 Stat. 484 | Other | 30 Stat. 484 — New Mexico territorial grants; the Asplund context. Source: the New Mexico state dossier. Ch. 1. | Not recorded |
| Oklahoma Enabling Act of June 16, 1906, 34 Stat. 267 | Other | of June 16, 1906, 34 Stat. 267 — in-lieu cash component. Ch. 1 (§ 1.4). | Not recorded |
| New Mexico–Arizona Enabling Act of June 20, 1910, § 10 (AZ: § 28), 36 Stat. 557 | Other | of June 20, 1910, § 10 (AZ: § 28), 36 Stat. 557 — the high-water mark: "in trust," "null and void," "breach of trust," U.S. Attorney General enforcement. Ch. 1 (§ 1.5), Ch. 14 (lead instrument). | Not recorded |
| Alaska Statehood Act of July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-508, 72 Stat. 339. Ch. 1 (§ 1.6). | Other | of July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-508, 72 Stat. 339. Ch. 1 (§ 1.6). | Not recorded |
| 43 U.S.C. § 851 et seq. | Other | codified school-grant/lieu-selection framework. Ch. 1 (§ 1.8). | Not recorded |
| Taylor Grazing Act § 7 (via Andrus v. Utah). Ch. 1 (§ 1.8). | Other | (via Andrus v. Utah). Ch. 1 (§ 1.8). | Not recorded |
| Or. Const. Art. VIII §§ 2, 5 (1857 original; 1968 as amended) | Other | CSF "separate and irreducible"; § 5(2) greatest-benefit standard; § 8 (school-adequacy clause, Pendleton). Art. III § 1 (separation of powers). Ch. 2, Ch. 3, Ch. 15. | Not recorded |
| Idaho Const. Art. IX §§ 3, 4, 8 | Other | acceptance; inviolate endowment; "maximum long term financial return." Ch. 2, Ch. 6. | Not recorded |
| Mont. Const. Art. X § 3 | Other | fund "forever remain inviolate, guaranteed by the state against loss or diversion." Ch. 2, Ch. 7. | Not recorded |
| Neb. Const. Art. VII § 9 (renumbering noted) | Other | (renumbering noted) — perpetual school fund; the constitutional-incorporation hook of Ebke. Ch. 2, Ch. 3 (§ 3.3). | Not recorded |
| N.M. Const. Art. XII (permanent fund); Art. XIII § 1 (elected Commissioner); 2022 early-childhood amendment (congressional consent required). Ch. 2, Ch. 18. | Other | 2022 early-childhood amendment (congressional consent required). Ch. 2, Ch. 18. | Not recorded |
| Alaska Const. Art. IX § 15 (Permanent Fund). Ch. 2. | Other | (Permanent Fund). Ch. 2. | Not recorded |
| Utah Const. art. IV, § 10 (oath clause) | Other | The public-officials' oath clause, invoked in the Book Cliffs analysis held in the Library's collection. Ch. 18. | Not recorded |
| Colorado Amendment 16 (1996) | Other | constitutional reform tested in Branson. Ch. 2, Ch. 18. | Not recorded |
| Utah Code § 53C-4-104 (H.B. 262) and Utah Admin. R. R850-80-630 | Other | The direct-sale-to-DNR mechanism at issue in the Book Cliffs transaction; the contemporary direct-sale statute named in Ch. 9 and Ch. 18. Source: the Utah state dossier. | Not recorded |
| Idaho Code § 58-310B | Other | struck in IWP II. Ch. 3, Ch. 10. | Not recorded |
| A.R.S. § 27-234 | Other | invalidated, affirmed in ASARCO v. Kadish. Ch. 8. | Not recorded |
| Restatement (Second) of Trusts § 181 | Cited in briefing | duty to make trust property productive. Ch. 6. Cited in briefing. | Not recorded |
| Restatement (Third) of Trusts | Needs verification | Prudent-investor framework; § 82 cmt. d, cited by the State on reporting, in a context not yet confirmed; §§ 170-184 (fiduciary accounting). Cited in briefing. Ch. 6, Ch. 11. | Not recorded |
| Restatement (Second) of Agency §§ 381, 389, 390 | Cited in briefing | the Lindland burden sources (distinguishing material). Ch. 16. Cited in briefing. | Not recorded |
| Bogert, Trusts and Trustees §§ 961-973 | Cited in briefing | Accounting independent of damages; § 962 cited in the A177308 opening brief's table of authorities. Cited in briefing. Ch. 11. | Not recorded |
| Scott on Trusts § 172 | Cited in briefing | Cited in the A177308 opening brief's table of authorities. Cited in briefing. Ch. 11. | Not recorded |
| Administering Trusts in Oregon (2024 ed.) § 1.2 | Cited in briefing | trust definition deployed in the filed Response. Ch. 3. Cited in briefing. | Not recorded |
| Sullivan & Bird, Oregon's Constitutional Duties to Schools | Primary source held | Offered to the court as a learned treatise in the filed response (May 29, 2026). Held in the Library's published-books files. Ch. 2-3 Oregon material. | Not recorded |
| Norman Ray Hawk, A History of the Irreducible School Fund in Oregon (doctoral dissertation, 1949) | Needs verification | Offered alongside it as a learned treatise. Whether a copy is held in the Library's collection is not yet confirmed; it is not in the case-law files. Ch. 2 (Oregon reception history). | Not recorded |
| Uniform Civil Jury Instructions 50.02 (Oregon fiduciary elements) | Cited in briefing | Cited by the State in its briefing. Ch. 16. | Not recorded |
| Arizona Bar Journal (Dec./Jan. 1988) | Cited in briefing | Judge Cannon: "Beware of the Enabling Act; it's guarding the hen house"; "state trust land is not owned by the State of Arizona." Quotation carried from a state dossier and not independently verified; it is the probable origin of the "is not state land" phrase once attributed to Deer Valley. Cited in briefing. | Not recorded |
| Tonia Day, "The Self-Dealing Shell Game: Utah's Book Cliffs Deal" (draft, May 2026) | Other | An unpublished draft shared by its author on May 17, 2026 and held as a candidate for publication, not as a published document. See the Utah appendix. | Not recorded |
| Uniform Public Trust Enforcement Act (Model Act v1, 2026) | Other | The project's own model act. Chapter 19 subject matter. | Not recorded |
| America's School Trust Library: A building made of records (booklet, second edition) | Needs verification | Library publication, 2026-08-10; second edition 2026-08-12. The Library's 20-page self-portrait. Published at /booklet/. SHA-256 (press copy): 47449cbb8166d05cde1a12b6678a88a80ae805cec5c39264651e7b624ec95685 | Not recorded |
Primary sources
Case-Law Holdings
- Oregon Supreme Court75
- Parallel States55
- Oregon Court of Appeals50
- US Supreme Court26
- Federal5
- Coos County Circuit Court5
- Ninth Circuit4
| Held text | Folder | Public doorway | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| C.A.M. Concepts, Inc. v. Gwyn, 206 Or. App. 122, 136 P.3d 60 (2006) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Borough v. Caldwell (A172579), 314 Or. App. 62, 497 P.3d 766 (2021) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. United States, 279 Or. App. 411, 380 P.3d 1186 (2016) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Doyle v. City of Medford, 356 Or. 336, 337 P.3d 797 (2014) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Coats v. State, 334 Or. 587, 54 P.3d 610 (2002) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Clark v. City of Albany, 142 Or. App. 207, 921 P.2d 406 (1996) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Beck v. City of Portland, 202 Or. App. 360, 122 P.3d 131 (2005) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cascadia Wildlands v. Kitzhaber, 911 F. Supp. 2d 1075 (D. Or. 2012) | Federal | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Coffin v. Coffin, 4 Mass. 1 (1808) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| MT & M Gaming, Inc. v. City of Portland, 274 Or. App. 100, 360 P.3d 611 (2015) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Anderson v. Oregon Railroad Co., 45 Or. 211, 77 P. 119 (1904) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| WaterWatch of Oregon, Inc. v. Water Resources Commission, 199 Or. App. 598, 112 P.3d 443 (2005) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Morgan v. Sisters School District No. 6, 353 Or. 189, 301 P.3d 419 (2013) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Conservation Congress v. Finley, 774 F.3d 611 (9th Cir. 2014) | Ninth Circuit | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Marbled Murrelet v. Babbitt, 83 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 1996) | Ninth Circuit | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393, 43 S. Ct. 158, 67 L. Ed. 322 (1922) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 26 L. Ed. 377 (1880) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Doe v. McMillan, 412 U.S. 306, 93 S. Ct. 2018, 36 L. Ed. 2d 912 (1973) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606, 92 S. Ct. 2614, 33 L. Ed. 2d 583 (1972) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Tenney v. Brandhove, 341 U.S. 367, 71 S. Ct. 783, 95 L. Ed. 1019 (1951) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Simonsen v. Ford Motor Co., 196 Or. App. 460, 102 P.3d 710 (2004) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Ferguson, 201 Or. App. 261, 119 P.3d 794 (2005) (on reconsideration) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| John Hyland Const., Inc. v. Williamsen & Bleid, Inc., 287 Or. App. 466, 402 P.3d 719 (2017) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Concienne v. Asante, 299 Or. App. 490, 450 P.3d 533 (2019) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Childers Meat Co. v. City of Eugene, 296 Or. App. 668, 439 P.3d 1000 (2019) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Alexander v. State, 283 Or. App. 582, 390 P.3d 1109 (2017) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Alto v. City of Cannon Beach, 247 Or. App. 641, 270 P.3d 392 (2012) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Boise Cascade Corp. v. State Board of Forestry, 164 Or. App. 114, 991 P.2d 563 (1999) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Safeport, Inc. v. Equipment Roundup & Manufacturing, Inc., 184 Or. App. 690, 60 P.3d 1076 (2002) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cowan v. Nordyke, 232 Or. App. 384, 222 P.3d 1093 (2009) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Caldeen Construction, LLC v. Kemp, 248 Or. App. 82, 273 P.3d 174 (2012) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Gast v. State, by and through Stevenson, 36 Or. App. 441, 585 P.2d 12 (1978) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Oregonians for Sound Economic Policy, Inc. v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp. (SAIF), 218 Or. App. 31, 178 P.3d 286 (2008) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Menten and Deatherage, 302 Or. App. 425, 461 P.3d 1075 (2020) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Harmon v. State of Oregon, 320 Or. App. 406, 514 P.3d 1131 (2022) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Oregon Taxpayers United PAC v. Keisling, 143 Or. App. 537, 924 P.2d 853 (1996) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Hale v. State of Oregon, 259 Or. App. 379 (2013) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Newport Church of the Nazarene v. Hensley, 335 Or. 1, 56 P.3d 386 (2002) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cutsforth v. Kinzua Corp., 267 Or. 423, 517 P.2d 640 (1973) — Tongue, J., dissenting | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cutsforth v. Kinzua Corp., 267 Or. 423, 517 P.2d 640 (1973) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Falk v. Amsberry, 290 Or. 839 (1981) — Lent, J., concurrence | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Falk v. Amsberry, 290 Or. 839, 626 P.2d 362 (1981) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Gruber v. Lincoln Hospital District, 285 Or 3, 588 P2d 1281 (1979) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Welch v. Bancorp Management Advisors, Inc., 296 Or 208, 675 P2d 172 (1983) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Hitz, 307 Or 183, 766 P2d 373 (1988) — Jones, J., concurrence | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Hitz, 307 Or 183, 766 P2d 373 (1988) — lead opinion | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Peeples v. Lampert, 345 Or 209, 191 P3d 637 (2008) — Durham, J., concurrence | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Peeples v. Lampert, 345 Or 209, 191 P3d 637 (2008) — lead opinion | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Stevens v. Bispham, 316 Or 221, 851 P2d 556 (1993) — Unis, J., special concurrence | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Stevens v. Bispham, 316 Or 221, 851 P2d 556 (1993) — lead opinion | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Swett v. Bradbury (attorney fees), 335 Or 378, 67 P3d 391 (2003) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Deras v. Myers, 272 Or 47, 535 P2d 541 (1975) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Carden v. Johnson, 282 Or 169, 577 P2d 513 (1978) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel Dewberry v. Kulongoski, 346 Or 260, 210 P3d 884 (2009) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Babson, 355 Or. 383, 326 P.3d 559 (2014) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Foote v. State, 364 Or. 558, 437 P.3d 221 (2019) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kellas v. Department of Corrections, 341 Or. 471, 145 P.3d 139 (2006) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Fulton National Bank v. Tate, 363 F.2d 562 (5th Cir. 1966) | Federal | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Jimenez v. Lee, 274 Or. 457, 547 P.2d 126 (1976) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Eacret et ux. v. Holmes, 215 Or. 121, 333 P.2d 741 (1958) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| League of Oregon Cities v. State, 334 Or. 645, 56 P.3d 892 (2002) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| MacPherson v. Department of Administrative Services, 340 Or. 117, 130 P.3d 308 (2006) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Barns v. City of Eugene, 183 Or. App. 471, 52 P.3d 1094 (2002) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kutz v. Lee, 291 Or. App. 470, 422 P.3d 362 (2018) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| MT & M Gaming, Inc. v. City of Portland, 360 Or. 544, 383 P.3d 800 (2016) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Chernaik v. Kitzhaber, 263 Or. App. 463, 328 P.3d 799 (2014) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cascadia Wildlands v. Oregon Department of State Lands, 293 Or. App. 127, 427 P.3d 1091 (2018), aff'd, 365 Or. 750 (2019) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kramer v. City of Lake Oswego, 365 Or. 422, 446 P.3d 1 (2019) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| United States v. Mitchell (Mitchell II), 463 U.S. 206 (1983) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| School Dist. No. 23 of Okfuskee County v. Commissioners of the Land Office | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Department of State Lands v. Pettibone, 702 P.2d 948, 216 Mont. 361 (1985) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Burlingame, 597 P.2d 51, 182 Mont. 298 (1979) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Jerke v. State Department of Lands, 597 P.2d 49, 182 Mont. 294 (1979) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel. School District of Fulton v. Davis, 361 Mo. 730, 236 S.W.2d 301 (Mo. 1951) (en banc) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Holmes v. Jones, 318 So. 2d 865 (Miss. 1975) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Propst v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds, 156 Neb. 226, 55 N.W.2d 653 (1952) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| State ex rel. Ebke v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds (Ebke I), 154 Neb. 244, 47 N.W.2d 520 (1951) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Idaho Watersheds Project v. State Board of Land Commissioners (IWP II), 133 Idaho 64, 982 P.2d 367 (1999) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Conservation Northwest v. Franz, 200 Wn.2d 8, 513 P.3d 769 (2022) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| County of Skamania v. State, 102 Wn.2d 127, 685 P.2d 576 (1984) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Oregon ex rel. Division of State Lands v. Bureau of Land Management, 876 F.2d 1419 (9th Cir. 1989) | Ninth Circuit | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Evergreen West Business Center, LLC v. Emmert, 254 Or App 361, 296 P.3d 545 (2012) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Hanggi ex rel. Oregon Public Employees' Retirement Fund v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co., 132 Or App 601, 889 P.2d 365 (1995) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Larsen v. Selmet, Inc., 371 Or. 457, 537 P.3d 920 (2023) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Eklof v. Persson, 369 Or. 531, 508 P.3d 468 (2022) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Comcast of Oregon II, Inc. v. City of Eugene, 346 Or. 238, 209 P.3d 800 (2009) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Johnson v. Department of Revenue, 292 Or. 373, 639 P.2d 128 (1982) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Lindland v. United Business Investments, Inc., 298 Or. 318, 693 P.2d 20 (1984) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Eagle Point Irrigation District v. Cowden, 137 Or. 121, 1 P.2d 605 (1931) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cascadia Wildlands v. Dept. of State Lands, 365 Or. 750, 452 P.3d 938 (2019) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Branson School District RE-82 v. Romer, 161 F.3d 619 (10th Cir. 1998) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Montanans for the Responsible Use of the School Trust v. State ex rel. Board of Land Commissioners (Montrust I), 1999 MT 263, 296 Mont. 402, 989 P.2d 800 | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Couey v. Atkins, 357 Or. 460, 355 P.3d 866 (2015) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Putnam v. Norblad, 134 Or 433, 293 P 940 (1930) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Pendleton School District 16R v. State of Oregon, 345 Or 596, 200 P3d 133 (2009) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cooper v. Roberts, 59 U.S. (18 How.) 173 (1855) | US Supreme Court | Open public entry | |
| Ervien v. United States, 251 U.S. 41 (1919) | US Supreme Court | Open public entry | |
| Lassen v. Arizona ex rel. Arizona Highway Department, 385 U.S. 458 (1967) | US Supreme Court | Open public entry | |
| ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish, 490 U.S. 605 (1989) | US Supreme Court | Open public entry | |
| Board of Trustees for the Vincennes University v. Indiana, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 268 (1852) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel. Williamson v. Commissioners of the Land Office, 301 P.2d 655 (Okla. 1956) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kanaly v. State by and Through Janklow (Kanaly I), 368 N.W.2d 819 (S.D. 1985) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Jensen v. Dinehart, 645 P.2d 32 (Utah 1982) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Clark v. Stephen D. Lee Foundation, 887 So. 2d 798 (Miss. 2004) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Weiss, 706 P.2d 681 (Alaska 1985) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. University of Alaska, 624 P.2d 807 (Alaska 1981) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Wilson v. Gutierrez | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Masters v. Secretary of State | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Sager v. City of Portland | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Vokoun v. City of Lake Oswego | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Pritchard v. City of Portland | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Mann v. McCullough | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Ramirez v. Hawaii T & S Enterprises, Inc. | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State of Utah v. Andrus (the "Cotter Corp." school-trust access case) | Federal | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Rooney v. Kulongoski (Elections Division #13) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| George-Buckley v. Medford School District 549C | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Karjalainen v. Curtis Johnston & Pennywise, Inc. | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Day v. City of Canby | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Hickey v. Settlemier | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Lowrimore v. Dimmitt | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| James & Yost, Inc. v. State Board of Higher Education | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Georgeson v. State of Oregon | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Freeman v. Stuart | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Espinosa v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Demaray v. Department of Environmental Quality | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Curzi v. Oregon State Lottery | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| County of Linn v. State of Oregon | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Garrison v. Deschutes County | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Dewsnup v. Farmers Insurance Company of Oregon | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Bergerson v. Salem-Keizer School District | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Anderson v. Department of Revenue | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Miller v. C.C. Meisel Co., Inc. | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| OEA v Nigh 642 P2d 230 Okla 1982 FULL OPINION | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Bishop v. KC Development Group, LLC | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Central Oregon Irrigation District v. Deschutes County | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel Metropolitan Public Defender Services, Inc. v. Courtney | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Heydenfeldt v. Daney Gold and Silver Mining Co. | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 1 (1819) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Keys v. Carter, 318 So. 2d 862 (Miss. 1975) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (1928) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Andrus v. Utah, 446 U.S. 500 (1980) | US Supreme Court | Open public entry | |
| Thompson v. Coughlin, 329 Or. 630, 997 P.2d 191 (2000) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Smith v. Williams, 98 Or. App. 258, 779 P.2d 1057 (1989) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Sasser v. DeLorme, 56 Or. App. 630, 642 P.2d 1192 (1982) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Asplund v. Hannett | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Friends of the Wild Swan v. Department of Natural Resources and Conservation | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Plateau Mining Co. v. Utah Division of State Lands & Forestry | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 v. Superior Court | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| State v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District, 147 Neb. 289, 23 N.W.2d 300 (1946) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State of Utah v. Kleppe | Federal | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| National Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Board of State Lands | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Gaines | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Public Market Co. v. City of Portland (1942 round) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Montrust v. Darkenwald, 2005 MT 190, 328 Mont. 105, 119 P.3d 27 (2005) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State Land Board v. Lee | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Miller v. Grants Pass Irrigation District, 297 Or. 312, 686 P.2d 324 (1984) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Urban Renewal Agency v. Lackey, 275 Or. 35, 549 P.2d 657 (1976) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Public Market Co. of Portland v. City of Portland, 179 Or. 367, 170 P.2d 586 (1946) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Westfall v. State of Oregon, 355 Or. 144, 324 P.3d 440 (2014) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Portland General Electric Co. v. Bureau of Labor & Industries, 317 Or. 606, 859 P.2d 1143 (1993) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Corpe v. Brooks, 8 Or. 222 (1880) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| National Parks Conservation Ass'n v. Board of Trustees of SITLA, 2010 UT 13, 231 P.3d 1193 (NPCA II) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Friends of the Wild Swan v. Department of Natural Resources & Conservation, 2000 MT 209, 301 Mont. 1, 6 P.3d 972 | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kanaly v. State by and through Janklow, 403 N.W.2d 33 (S.D. 1987) — per curiam (Kanaly III) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Kanaly v. State ex rel. Janklow, 401 N.W.2d 551 (S.D. 1987) — lead opinion | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Selkirk-Priest Basin Ass'n, Inc. v. State ex rel. Andrus, 127 Idaho 239, 899 P.2d 949 (1995) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Selkirk-Priest Basin Ass'n v. State ex rel. Batt, 128 Idaho 831 (1996) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Warner Valley Stock Co., 68 Or. 466 (1914) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Sherman v. Buick, 93 U.S. 209 (1876) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Idaho Watersheds Project v. State Board of Land Commissioners, 133 Idaho 55 (1999) (IWP I) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| North Carolina School Boards Ass'n v. Moore, 359 N.C. 474 (2005) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Sherman v. Buick, 45 Cal. 656 (1873) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel. Ebke v. Board of Educational Lands & Funds, 159 Neb. 79 (1954) (Ebke II) | Parallel States | Open public entry | |
| Lambert v. State, 211 Miss. 129, 51 So. 2d 201 (1951) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Hill v. Thompson, 564 So. 2d 1 (Miss. 1989) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Bieker v. Ludwick, 343 Or. App. 1 (2025) | Oregon Court of Appeals | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Chernaik v. Brown, 367 Or. 143 (2020) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| James v. State of Oregon, 366 Or. 732 (2020) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Strunk v. Public Employees Retirement Board, 338 Or. 145 (2005) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Moro v. State of Oregon, 357 Or. 167 (2015) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Kennedy v. Wheeler, 356 Or. 518 (2014) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Holmes v. Olcott, 96 Or. 33 (1920) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Grand Prize Hydraulic Mines v. Boswell, 83 Or. 1 (1915/1917) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State v. Warner Valley Stock Co., 56 Or. 283 (1910) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Robertson v. State Land Board, 42 Or. 183 (1902) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Schneider v. Hutchinson, 35 Or. 253 (1899) | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel. King v. Lyons, 2011-NMSC-004, 248 P.3d 878 | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Walker, 61 N.M. 374, 301 P.2d 317 (1956) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Ebey v. Avoyelles Parish School Board, 861 So. 2d 910 (La. App. 3 Cir. 2003) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| State ex rel. Plaquemines Parish School Board v. Plaquemines Parish Government, 652 So. 2d 1 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1994) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Illinois, 146 U.S. 387 (1892) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Vidal v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. (2 How.) 127 (1844) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87 (1810) | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Mayer Unified School District v. Winkleman, 219 Ariz. 562, 201 P.3d 523 (Ariz. 2009) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Wayne County School District v. Quitman School District, 346 So. 3d 853 (Miss. 2022) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Goldmark v. McKenna, 172 Wn.2d 568, 259 P.3d 1095 (Wash. 2011) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Forest Guardians v. Powell, 130 N.M. 368, 24 P.3d 803, 2001-NMCA-028 (N.M. Ct. App.) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Jones County School District v. Covington County School District | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Public Utility District No. 1 of Okanogan County v. State | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Director of the Office of State Lands & Investments v. Merbanco, Inc. | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Forest Guardians v. Wells (Guardians v. Wells) | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Alamo Land & Cattle Co. v. Arizona | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Oregon ex rel. State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co. | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Savage v. Glendale Union High School District No. 205 | Ninth Circuit | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Wilcox v. Jackson | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los Angeles | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Papasan v. Allain | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| United States v. Morrison | US Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Wood v. Honeyman | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Order Extending Time for Counsel — Coos County No. 24CV38372 | Coos County Circuit Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Order Allowing Withdrawal of Counsel — Coos County No. 24CV38372 | Coos County Circuit Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Combs Letter Opinion — September 5, 2025 — *Siuslaw School District 97J et al. v. State of Oregon*, Coos County No. 24CV38372 | Coos County Circuit Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Judge Combs' Letter Opinion of March 6, 2025 (24CV38372) | Coos County Circuit Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Judge Combs' Letter Opinion of February 26, 2024 (23CV39056) | Coos County Circuit Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Advocates for School Trust Lands v. State of Oregon | Oregon Court of Appeals | Open public entry | |
| Parallel-State School-Trust Case Corpus — Master Index | Parallel States | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Sabine River Authority v. U.S. Department of Interior, 951 F.2d 669 (5th Cir. 1992) | Federal | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending | |
| Cascadia Wildlands v. Department of State Lands | Oregon Supreme Court | Held in the Library's case-law files; gateway pending |
Figures
Promoted Figures and Anchors
- Other
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- Needs verification
- 28
| Figure or anchor | Value | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 PERS transfer (the SDULF intercept) | $148,923,414 | Other | Not yet confirmed against a primary source |
| (Earlier figure, superseded) | $143,000,000 | Other | RFA assignment April 2026 |
| (Reference figure from PERS memo v3) | $91,900,000 | Other | Not yet confirmed against a primary source |
| (Annual figure from PERS memo v3) | $5,400,000 / year | Other | Not yet confirmed against a primary source |
| PERS employer rate (relevant period) | 21.91% | Other | Not yet confirmed against a primary source |
| Trustee duty of loyalty | ORS 130.660 | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Trustee duty of prudence | ORS 130.710 | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Trustee duty of accountability | ORS 130.755 | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Statehood compact | 1859 Oregon Admissions Act | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Common School Fund | Or. Const. art. VIII, § 2 | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Sufficient school funding | Or. Const. art. VIII, § 8 | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Elliott decoupling | SB 147 (June 2025) | Other | the Library's statute files — to be populated |
| Trust-fund integrity | *Wood v. Honeyman* | Other | the Library's case-law files — to be populated |
| Government as trust litigant | *Comcast of Oregon II v. City of Eugene* | Other | the Library's case-law files — to be populated |
| Article VIII §8 standing | *Advocates for School Trust Lands v. State of Oregon*, 346 Or App 668 (2026) | Other | the Library's case-law files |
| Elliott State Forest | 82,000 acres | Other | the Library's statute files — SB1546 or successor |
| National surviving trust-land estate | More than 45 million acres held by 20 states (ASTL standing figure) | Needs verification | imported ASTL state-page corpus; schooltrustlands.org |
| Texas Permanent School Fund | About $60.6B net as of Aug. 31, 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files (TX PSF Corp FY2025 ACFR / TEA disclosure) |
| New Mexico Land Grant Permanent Fund | About $32.6B as of Oct. 31, 2024 | Needs verification | the Library's research files (NM State Investment Council) |
| North Dakota Common Schools Trust Fund | About $8.4B ($8,436,270,651) as of Nov. 30, 2025 | Needs verification | ND State Treasurer "Government Funds" report / Dept. of Trust Lands monthly report, Nov. 30, 2025 |
| Colorado Public School Permanent Fund | $1,845,545,326 as of June 30, 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files (CO Treasury / State Land Board) |
| Minnesota Permanent School Fund | About $2.3B as of 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files (Minnesota House Session Daily) |
| Arizona Permanent Land Endowment Trust Fund | About $8.8B as of June 2024; later report cited about $9.86B as of Nov. 30, 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files; AZ Treasury monthly report pending promotion |
| Alaska Public School Trust Fund | $945.6M as of Nov. 30, 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files |
| California School Land Bank Fund | About $65.7M as of FY2024-25 | Needs verification | the Library's research files |
| Oregon Common School Fund audited fund balance | $2,585,199,612 as of June 30, 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files (Audited CSF Annual Financial Report FY2025) |
| Oregon remaining trust acreage | About 681,000 acres as of March 2025 DSL fact sheet | Needs verification | the Library's research files (DSL Fact Sheet updated 3/25) |
| Oregon Common School Fund FY2025 distribution | $76.8M to 197 K-12 districts in 2025, about $147/student | Needs verification | the Library's research files (DSL Fact Sheet updated 3/25) |
| Elliott State Forest MB&G investment value | $99.6M | Needs verification | the Library's research files (litigation testimony / MB&G value) |
| Elliott State Forest 2016 sale ceiling | About $220.8M | Needs verification | the Library's research files |
| Elliott decoupling package | $221M total: $121M General Fund + $100M bond funding | Needs verification | the Library's research files |
| Idaho Endowment Fund net position | $3,588,670,608 as of June 30, 2025 | Needs verification | Idaho Endowment Fund Investment Board FY2025 audited financial statements |
| Idaho Public School endowment distribution | $63,039,600 in FY2025 | Needs verification | Idaho Endowment Fund Investment Board FY2025 audited financial statements |
| Nebraska School Trust portfolio | $3,047,262,853.42 as of June 30, 2025 | Needs verification | Nebraska Board of Educational Lands and Funds 2024-25 Annual Report |
| Nebraska Permanent Educational Trust Funds | $1,156,492,240.95 as of June 30, 2025 | Needs verification | Nebraska Board of Educational Lands and Funds 2024-25 Annual Report |
| Nebraska FY2025 disbursements | $129,176,784.79 | Needs verification | Nebraska Board of Educational Lands and Funds 2024-25 Annual Report |
| Nevada broad statutory Permanent School Fund balance | $531,127,843 as of June 30, 2025 (unaudited) | Needs verification | Nevada State Controller FY2025 Permanent School Fund report |
| South Dakota School and Public Lands Fund ending fair value | $430,690,564 as of June 30, 2025 | Needs verification | SD Commissioner of School and Public Lands FY2025 Annual Report |
| South Dakota FY2025 returned to public schools | $15,590,737.54 | Needs verification | SD Commissioner of School and Public Lands FY2025 Annual Report |
| Utah Permanent State School Fund | About $3.7B (2025) | Needs verification | Utah State Treasurer (Sept. 2025); Utah Trust Lands performance reporting |
| Utah FY2025 trust distributions | Over $118M total; over $111M to K-12 public education | Needs verification | Utah Trust Lands FY2025 performance page / official reporting |
| Wisconsin Common School Fund principal | Over $1.6B as of Aug. 2025 | Needs verification | the Library's research files (BCPL Common School Fund source) |
| Wisconsin 2026 school-library distribution | $73.5M | Needs verification | the Library's research files (BCPL Library Aid reporting) |
| Wyoming Common School Permanent Land Fund | About $5.0B as of FY2024 (~$5.4B by 2025) | Needs verification | Wyoming State Treasurer FY2024 report; 2025 legislative materials |
| Oklahoma trust land managed by CLO | About 740,000 surface acres and 1.1M mineral acres | Other | Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office official profile / annual reporting, corpus pending |
Books
Book Manifests
School Trust Lands
The Law of America's Educational Land Trusts — A Working Treatise of the School Trust Field
America's School Trust Library
Open public shelfStewards of the Republic
How America's oldest forever trust teaches us to protect the public promises now arriving
David Sullivan
Open public shelfThe Forgotten Forever Gift to Public Schools
The Story of the Land America Set Aside for Its Schools — and What Became of It
Bird and Sullivan
Open public shelfWho Steals from Children
2026 Edition · The Annual Record of the Fight for America's School Trust Lands
Edited by David Sullivan
Open public shelfSpecial Collections
Named Collections
Proposed collection
Zybach Collection
A proposed named collection pointing to Dr. Bob Zybach public work, prepared for his consideration. The donor keeps copyright; the Library keeps the finding aid and source links.
Open finding aid