U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 22, 2011
Court To Take Up Water Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to step into a high-stakes dispute over water rights between a power company and the state of Montana.
The legal question in the case is whether the constitutional test for determining if a section of a river is navigable requires a trial court to determine whether the relevant stretch of the river was navigable at the time the state joined the Union.
The Montana Supreme Court ruled that the state holds title on cert...
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