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The Water Values Podcast - How Can We Resolve Water Conflicts?
In a unanimous decision this week, the United Stated Supreme Court denied Mississippi’s claim that the State of Tennessee was stealing Mississippi’s groundwater. The decision represents a first step in settling a years-long...more
Several decisions of interest were issued in the 2020 term, which stretched from October 2020 until early July 2021. This review will concentrate on environmental and administrative law cases....more
For decades, Florida blamed declining oyster harvests on the State of Georgia. And, for decades, Florida’s elected officials convinced the public they were not at fault. These theories were rejected, in total, by the United...more
On 1 April, the U.S. Supreme Court (the Court) put to rest the long-simmering dispute between Florida and Georgia over Georgia’s use of water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (the Basin) that Florida...more
In an April 1, 2021 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Florida’s exceptions to the decision of Special Master Judge Paul Kelly in its long-running dispute with Georgia over the use of water in the...more
On April 1, 2021 the U.S. Supreme Court decided Florida v. Georgia, holding that Florida failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that Georgia’s overconsumption of interstate waters injured it, and so Florida was not...more
A United States Supreme Court (“Court”) Special Master (“Special Master”) issued a December 11th Report in the interstate water dispute between the states of Florida and Georgia. See State of Florida v. State of Georgia, No....more
We previously issued an alert analyzing two interstate water compact disputes before the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS” or the “Court”): Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado and Florida v. Georgia. On June 27, the Court rejected...more
The United States Supreme Court (“Court”) issued an opinion today in the interstate water dispute between the states of Florida and Georgia. The Court had previously found that the litigation fit within its original...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced the retirement of Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy: Justice Kennedy, nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court, assumed the bench in 1988. ...more