U.S. Supreme Court,
Environmental & Energy
May 13, 2021
A lawyer’s view of the effort to take water fight to high court
There is an old expression that describes an effort to exaggerate or magnify the significance of a dispute — “You don’t need to make a federal case out of it.”
David Osias
Partner
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
David has been a water lawyer for over 40 years, and was appellate amicus counsel for the Imperial Valley Coalition for the Fair Sharing of Water in the Abatti litigation.
There is an old expression that describes an effort to exaggerate or magnify the significance of a dispute -- "You don't need to make a federal case out of it." That expression describes precisely the effort of Michael Abatti -- a farmer in the Imperial Valley -- to engage the U.S. Supreme Court in a review of the California appellate court decision that completely rejected the notion that landowning farmers in the Imperial Valley own a water right that runs with thei...
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