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The United States Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous opinion in an ongoing groundwater dispute between Mississippi and Tennessee.\u00a0 [Read Opinion here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

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I wrote a blog post<\/a> detailing this decision for the National Agricultural Law Center.\u00a0 To read my summary of the dispute, description of the Opinion, and thoughts about what this means from here, just click here<\/a> to read that post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous opinion in an ongoing groundwater dispute between Mississippi and Tennessee.\u00a0 [Read Opinion here.] I wrote a blog post detailing this decision for the National Agricultural Law Center.\u00a0 To read my summary of the dispute, description of the Opinion, and thoughts about what this means from here, just click here to read that post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2443,"featured_media":10705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-states-supreme-court-decisions","category-water-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUnited States Supreme Court Dismisses Mississippi v. 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