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Litigation

Feb. 7, 2015

As long-running fight over massive water transfer ends, lawyer shut out

Imperial County agrees to drop case challenging a 2003 deal to send Imperial Valley water to coastal cities, putting to rest 12 years of litigation, but raising doubts in the mind of its longtime outside counsel.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Imperial County cut its key attorney out of the loop when, earlier this week, it settled long-running litigation over a massive water transfer from the Imperial Valley to urban Southern California.


Antonio Rossmann, who learned of the settlement from a reporter's call, is not taking it well. He has been outside counsel to the county for 20 years on various water-related matters and had recently...

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