Monday, June 22, 2015

Georgia loses motion to dismiss water wars suit

Georgia has lost an effort to derail the latest lawsuit in the decades-long tri-state water wars. A special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Georgia’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by the state of Florida in 2013 over water allocation from the Chattahoochee River Basin. In a ruling handed down last Friday, Ralph I. Lancaster declared lawyers representing Georgia failed to justify a claim that the case should not go forward because the federal government cannot be made…

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