Mealey's (October 11, 2022, 10:45 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — Fourteen months after a similar state court lawsuit died in the U.S. Supreme Court, California farmer Michael Abatti and his family have filed a federal lawsuit against the Imperial Irrigation District, alleging that the district’s latest equitable distribution plan (EDP) for irrigation water from the Colorado River is unconstitutional, is contrary to U.S. Supreme Court precedent and is contrary to the water district’s representations about farmer’s water rights....