South Carolina High Court Again Denies Challenge To Agricultural Water Use Law

(June 1, 2018, 2:28 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — A divided South Carolina Supreme Court on May 30 reconsidered plaintiffs’ argument that the state’s water policy for agricultural users violates the public trust doctrine but again found that the plaintiffs lack standing because the harm to public trust has not occurred and is speculative (James Jefferson Jowers Sr., et al. v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, No. 2016-000428, S.C. Sup.)....

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