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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 12 > Farmers’ water claims kept alive by high court

Farmers’ water claims kept alive by high court

Law doesn’t preclude them from having property rights to water, Oregon justices decide

By Jeff Barnard / The Bulletin
March 12, 2010

GRANTS PASS — The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday kept alive claims by Klamath Basin farmers that the federal government should pay them for shutting off water to crops in 2001 to help protected fish survive a drought.

A federal appeals court had asked the state Supreme Court for guidance on a....

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