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Court unanimously favors Tennessee in groundwater dispute with Mississippi

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Share Confirming expectations, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously denied Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater. Georgia , the complaining state has a heavy burden of demonstrating that the other state’s water use is causing the complaining state significant injury.

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In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater

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Tennessee is not only the Supreme Court’s first oral argument of the 2021-22 term, but it is also the first time that states have asked the court to weigh in on how they should share an interstate aquifer. Tennessee , therefore, is whether the equitable apportionment doctrine (automatically) applies to groundwater resources.

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Decedent’s personal injury settlement did not become wrongful death proceeds after his death.

Day on Torts

After decedent’s death, plaintiffs filed this suit in Tennessee, attempting to have the remaining settlement proceeds distributed as wrongful death proceeds rather than having them distributed under decedent’s will. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation. In Welch v. Welch , No.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. Griffin voluntarily paid money to experience it.” _ In 2018, a case emerged in Madison, Tennessee from the Nashville Nightmare Haunted House. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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Justices throw cold water on Mississippi’s claim to groundwater

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Tennessee , dealt with Mississippi’s claim that Memphis, Tennessee, is stealing Mississippi’s groundwater. Arguing for Mississippi, Mississippi Deputy Solicitor General John Coghlan repeatedly emphasized the extraterritorial effect of Memphis’ pumping from an aquifer that straddles the Mississippi-Tennessee border.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. In 2018, a case emerged in Madison, Tennessee from the Nashville Nightmare Haunted House. As discussed earlier , In Franklin County, Tennessee, children may want to avoid the house of Dale Bryant Farris, 65, this Halloween.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

People are seeking the closure of the houses located in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama. In 2018, a case emerged in Madison, Tennessee from the Nashville Nightmare Haunted House. As discussed earlier , In Franklin County, Tennessee, children may want to avoid the house of Dale Bryant Farris, 65, this Halloween.

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