Westlands Water Dist. v. Patterson

ELR Citation: ELR 20471
No(s). CV-F-94-5217 OWW (E.D. Cal. Aug 9, 1995)

The court holds that the rights of two California county water districts to water allocations from the Central Valley Project (CVP) are inferior to the preexisting water allocation rights of parties who agreed not to exercise certain vested rights in exchange for substitute water. The districts chal...