Legal Opinion
Texas County Irrigation & Water Resources Ass'n v. Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided November 13, 1990No. Nos. 70608, 70609PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.
At issue in this appeal is the correctness of the district court’s § 306 1 declaratory ruling that the determination of “maximum annual yield” of water allocated to each acre of land over the Ogallala Groundwater Basin in Texas County is an invalid agency rule. We reverse the order as contrary to law.
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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION
Appellee, Texas County Irrigation and Water Resources Association [Association], is a non-profit Oklahoma Corporation designed to protect the groundwater resources in Texas County. Its members include the individually named appellees, who use…
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