Tuesday, June 13, 2017

U.S. v. Gila Valley Irrigation Dist. (9th Cir. - June 13, 2017)

For yet more evidence that water rights matter very much in our (increasingly) dry world, check out today's 44-page, single spaced opinion by the Ninth Circuit.

Even water rights over 1.4 acres of land in a scrubby portion of Arizona are worthy of expansive litigation, analysis, and discourse.  Not to mention all the other properties at issue.

Water.  It's a big deal.