Tuesday Top of the Scroll: Justices won’t wade into fight over Klamath water rights
Farmers won’t get paid for river water they lost out on during a drought in southern Oregon, because Native American tribes have water rights that rank above those of irrigators, stretching back to “time immemorial” — a ruling the U.S. Supreme Court refused to disturb on Monday.
Related articles:
- Lost Coast Outpost: Supreme Court refuses to hear 18-year-old Klamath water rights case, upholding tribal primacy
- Eureka Times-Standard: Supreme Court declines to reconsider tribes’ water rights at Klamath River
- Klamath Falls Herald & News: ‘Takings’ case closed
- The Hill: Supreme Court won’t reconsider Western farmers’ water fight