Environmental & Energy,
California Courts of Appeal
Apr. 9, 2021
Novel water rights opinion says use it or lose it
Ruling on a highly complex, decadeslong dispute over access to a Los Angeles water basin, the 5th District Court of Appeal affirmed lower court rulings that effectively bar nonpumping landowners from accessing their water rights.
Landowners who continuously pumped water from a depleted Los Angeles water basin over the last two decades now have priority over landowners who didn't, a state appeals court ruled in a novel opinion published this week.
Ruling on a highly complex, decadeslong dispute over access to a Los Angeles water basin in the Antelope Valley, the 5th District Court of Appeal affirmed two lower court rulings which effectively bar nonpumping land...
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