10th Circuit: Audubon Suit To Enforce Water Right In Wildlife Refuge Is Moot

Mealey's (June 2, 2023, 8:21 AM EDT) -- DENVER — The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with a federal district court that a lawsuit by Audubon of Kansas seeking to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enforce a federal water right on a large Kansas wildlife refuge is moot because of a subsequent development in a decades-long dispute with the state and a water district....