Mealey's (February 17, 2017, 11:11 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — California farmers in the Klamath River basin and the United States on Feb. 16 filed a proposed order certifying a class of farmers who allege that their water rights were impaired by the federal government in 2001 and their water rights taken in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Lonney E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al., No. 01-591L, John Anderson Farms, Inc., et al., No. 07-194C, Fed. Clms.)....