Mealey's (September 9, 2015, 8:40 AM EDT) -- STANFORD, Calif. — Montana on Sept. 2 asked a U.S. Supreme Court special master to defer its original jurisdiction case against Wyoming and Colorado for three months to allow meaningful settlement negotiations to continue (State of Montana v. State of Wyoming, et al., No. 137, Org., U.S. Sup.).

(Montana motion available. Document #95-150910-021M.)

In December, Special Master Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson Jr. of the Stanford University Law School in Stanford, Calif., issued a second interim report to the court, finding that Wyoming is liable to Montana...