SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Share Confirming expectations, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously denied Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater. For this state-level version of a trespass, Mississippi sought over $600 million in damages. Facts as developed so far indicate that Mississippi will be unable to meet that burden.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Right Division and the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi will conduct this investigation according to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. .”
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LegalReader
JANUARY 12, 2021
Madison, Mississippi Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler is challenging Initiative 65 in court.
JURIST
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The first case the justices heard was Mississippi v. Tennessee , an original case in which Mississippi claims that Tennessee is, through an unnatural amount of well-pumping on its side of the border, stealing groundwater from the Mississippi side of the border. The second case was Wooden v.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Share Mississippi v. The court’s decision could fundamentally restructure interstate groundwater law in the United States for decades — or the case could be dismissed immediately on the grounds that Mississippi has failed to allege the proper cause of action. Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Share The first oral argument of the Supreme Court’s new term, Mississippi v. Tennessee , dealt with Mississippi’s claim that Memphis, Tennessee, is stealing Mississippi’s groundwater. Coghlan argued that the groundwater extraction created a cone of depression that physically entered into Mississippi.
LegalReader
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The recently introduced text messages show Favre and former Gov. Bryant discussing how to channel $5 million in public funds toward Favre's volleyball project.
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