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Category "California Water Law & Policy"

U.S. District Court Reverses Army Corps’ Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determination—Applies Both Justice Kennedy and Justice Scalia’s Analyses in Rapanos

U.S. District Court Reverses Army Corps’ Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determination—Applies Both Justice Kennedy and Justice Scalia’s Analyses in Rapanos

By Melissa Jo Townsend, Rebecca Andrews The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [...]

California Court of Appeal Finds Imperial Irrigation District Water Allocation Program Invalid but Not a ‘Taking’ of Water Rights

California Court of Appeal Finds Imperial Irrigation District Water Allocation Program Invalid but Not a ‘Taking’ of Water Rights

By Derek R. Hoffman In a years-long dispute over water allocations among irrigation district water users [...]

State Attorneys General Challenge Trump Administration’s Revamp of the National Environmental Policy Act

State Attorneys General Challenge Trump Administration’s Revamp of the National Environmental Policy Act

By Geremy Holm, Miles Krieger, Steve Anderson In July 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality adopted [...]

Nevada Supreme Court Answers Certified Questions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Regarding the State’s Public Trust Doctrine

Nevada Supreme Court Answers Certified Questions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Regarding the State’s Public Trust Doctrine

By Debbie Leonard On September 17, 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an eagerly awaited ruling [...]