{"id":850653,"date":"2021-10-05T22:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T02:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=850653"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T02:29:41","slug":"scotus-hears-arguments-from-tenn-v-miss-water-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-hears-arguments-from-tenn-v-miss-water-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS hears arguments from Tenn. v. Miss. water dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscotus-hears-arguments-from-tenn-v-miss-water-dispute%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=850653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2540983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2540983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on October 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Court is holding in-person arguments for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:49 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, October 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A dispute between Mississippi and Tennessee has resurrected as the Supreme Court went back into session for the start of a new term. The debate, which originated in 2005, resumed on Monday when Mississippi revealed they were seeking more than $600 million as they accused Tennessee for pumping excess water near the border from an aquifer shared between the state lines.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mississippi\u2019s Deputy Solicitor General John Coghlan wanted to make clear equitable proportion was not the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMississippi does not claim the defendants are taking more than their fair share of ground water,\u201d he stated. \u201cRather, Mississippi\u2019s case turns on a different question. Do defendants have the right to control ground water while it is located in Mississippi\u2019s sovereign territory?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi has accused Tennessee of pumping more than 37 million gallons of water per day over state lines. The state added one inch of movement per day translated into tens of millions of gallon per day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8Groundwater Case at U.S. Supreme Court\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Oral Arguments Begin Today!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XpSyft94EY\">https:\/\/t.co\/XpSyft94EY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NGWA (@ngwatweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ngwatweets\/status\/1445074579551043592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the attorney for Tennessee argued it didn\u2019t work that way as the aquifer was equally proportioned in each state. He accused Mississippi of recently increasing its pumping, which allowed them to extract as much water as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir claim is that they think they have an ownership right that entitles them to charge Tennessee for water,\u201d David Frederick explained. \u201cWe think the Court should say no, that\u2019s not the correct statement of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts, who has been skeptic of the issue, proceeded to ask Mississippi about equitable apportionment not pertaining to water to make sense of their arguments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s suppose they\u2019re a valuable resource. If they were in Mississippi and crossed into Tennessee and Tennessee seized them at that point, would that be damaging Mississippi?\u201d he questioned. \u201cOr could Tennessee say they\u2019re on our territory, they\u2019re under our physical control, we can exercise dominion over them period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Roberts suggested water was an interstate resource subject to equity proportion and if sources that migrated between two states were shared, one cannot simply claim it as theirs. The justices are now expected to form their final ruling by next spring.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/blinken-tries-to-improvc-u-s-french-relations-after-submarine-spat\/\">Blinken Tries To Improve U.S.-French Relations After Submarine Spat<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on October 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. 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