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Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
04/01/2021
Decision
Florida's exceptions to the Special Master's Report overruled and case dismissed.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Florida’s original jurisdiction case seeking an equitable apportionment of the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. The Court unanimously found that Florida had not met its heavy burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that Georgia’s overconsumption of the Basin waters caused the collapse of Florida’s oyster fisheries and harm to Florida’s river ecosystem. The Court pointed to documents and witnesses presented by Florida that supported Georgia’s contention that Florida’s mismanagement of the fishery caused its collapse; the Court also cited evidence that “the unprecedented series of multiyear droughts, as well as changes in seasonal rainfall patterns, may have played a significant role” in the conditions that led to the fishery’s collapse.
07/27/2020
Reply
Sur-reply filed by Florida in support of exceptions to the special master's report.
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07/06/2020
Amicus Motion/Brief
Brief filed by United States as amicus curiae in support of overruling Florida's exceptions 2(d) and 3(iv) to the special master's report.
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07/02/2020
Amicus Motion/Brief
Amicus brief filed in support of Georgia by the Atlanta Regional Commission et al.
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04/20/2020
Amicus Motion/Brief
Brief filed by Franklin County Seafood Workers Association as amicus curiae.
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04/13/2020
Other
Exceptions to the report of the special master and brief in support of the exceptions filed by Florida.
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Summary
Original jurisdiction proceeding in which Florida seeks a decree apportioning the waters of the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint River Basins to address harms Florida allegedly suffered due to Georgia's consumptive uses of water.