One new legal filing and a raft of letters have been sent to the California State Supreme Court alternately praising and decrying the recent 5th District Court of Appeal opinion that overturned a local court order that had kept the Kern River flowing, at least for a few months. The response, filed by several agricultural water districts with Kern River rights, urges the Supreme Court to deny a petition to review the 5th District’s opinion and let it remain published, which can set precedent for how other courts rule in similar cases. The letters all seek to have the Supreme Court “depublish” the 5th District’s ruling, making it less potent. Two of the letters were filed by the original plaintiffs. … The state Attorney General and two environmental public interest groups also sent letters beseeching the state’s top court to depublish the 5th District’s opinion.