Legal Opinion
Rural Water Sewer & Solid Waste Management, District No. 1 v. City of Guthrie
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2011No. 08-6003, 08-6066PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
This case involves a dispute between two water service providers over which one of them is entitled to serve certain customers located in and around Guthrie, Oklahoma. Plaintiff-Appellee Rural Water, Sewer and Solid Waste Management District No. 1 of Logan County (“Logan-1”) claims that its right to serve these customers is grounded in state law, but is protected from competition from encroaching water districts by a federal statute, 7 U.S.C. § 1926(b). Section 1926(b) protects rural water providers like Logan-1, which are indebted on loans obtained from the United States…
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