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From: Land Use Law Report | Date: March 26, 2003 | Copyright information

A FEDERAL COURT JUDGE issued an injunction last week barfing the Interior Department from reducing Southern California's Imperial Irrigation District's share of Colorado River water this year. The agency cut the district's share by 11 percent after it refused to go along with a proposed deal to reallocate supplies from the river. Judge Thomas Whelan ruled the Interior Department violated its own procedures in making the ...

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