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The US Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether the government\u2019s orders to a California water district to divert less water violates the takings clause under the Constitution.<\/p>\n

United Water Conservation District\u2019<\/a>s petition for writ of certiorari was denied, sealing review of a federal appeals court ruling that held water level requirements for the Santa Clara River were \u201cnonpossessory government activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case centers on a National Marine Fisheries Service letter instructing the water district to use almost 50,000 acre-feet of water for aquifer restoration and groundwater supply after takings of the endangered steelhead trout were reported from United\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether the government\u2019s orders to a California water district to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,23150,86000,93229,64139,10528,69323,93228,36814],"class_list":["post-200600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-drinking-water","tag-environmental-permitting","tag-environmental-remediation","tag-fish-and-wildlife","tag-groundwater","tag-public-lands","tag-takings","tag-water-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}