Opinion ID: 880180
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Text: We affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the State on the ground that claim preclusion (res judicata) precludes Silver Eagle from relitigating its interest in the subject mining claims. Costs to the State. Chief Justice BURDICK and Justices EISMANN, J. JONES and W. JONES CONCUR. 5 We note that the subject mining claims are located on school endowment lands. Both the Idaho Admission Act and the Idaho Constitution provide that school endowment lands, such as the subject property in this case, may be disposed of only “at public sale.” Idaho Const. art. IX, § 8; Idaho Admission Act § 5; 26 Stat. 215, 216. Thus, we question whether application of an equitable theory of estoppel to divest the State of its interests in school endowment lands would be permissible under the Idaho Constitution. 9