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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. TENNESSEE

No. 143, Orig.

142 S.Ct. 31 (2021)

595 U.S. 15

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Plaintiff v. TENNESSEE, City of Memphis, Tennessee, and Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 22, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John V. Coghlan , Deputy Solicitor General, for Plaintiff.

Frederick Liu , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, in support of overruling plaintiffs exceptions

Jim Hood , Attorney General, State of Mississippi, Geoffrey C. Morgan , Assistant Attorney General, George W. Neville , Harold E. Pizzetta, III , Alison E. O'Neal , Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, C. Michael Ellingburg , Counsel of Record, Larry D. Moffett , Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, P.A., Jackson, MS, John W. (Don) Barrett , David M. McMullan, Jr. , Barrett Law Group, P.A., Lexington, MS, George B. Ready , George B. Ready Attorneys, Hernando, MS, Charles Barrett , Charles Barrett, P.C., Nashville, TN, for Plaintiff.

Lynn Fitch , Attorney General, State of Mississippi, Tricia Beale , Ta'shia S. Gordon , Mississippi Attorney, General's Office, Jackson, MS, C. Michael Ellingburg , Counsel of Record, Ellingburg Law Firm, Pllc, Flowood, MS, Larry D. Moffett , Law Office of Larry D., Moffett, Pllc, Oxford, MS, Charles Barrett , William J. Harbison, II , Neal & Harwell, Plc, Nashville, TN, Edward C. Taylor , Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, P.A., Gulfport, MS, for Plaintiff.

David C. Frederick , Joshua D. Branson , Grace W. Knofczynski , Alejandra Avila , Derek T. Ho , Kellogg, Hansen, Todd Figel & Frederick P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., Herbert H. Slatery III , Attorney General, Andrée Sophia Blumstein , Solicitor General, Sohnia W. Hong , Senior Counsel, Counsel of Record, Nashville, TN, David L. Bearman , Counsel of Record, Kristine L. Roberts , Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Memphis, TN, Cheryl W. Patterson , Charlotte Knight Griffin , Memphis Light , Gas & Water Division, Memphis, TN, Jennifer Sink , City of Memphis, TN, for Defendants.

Herman Morris, Jr. , Regina Morrison Newman , Philip Oliphant , Memphis, TN, Leo M. Bearman , Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Memphis, TN, for Defendants.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General, Joseph F. Whalen , Acting Solicitor General, Barry Turner , Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants.

For U.S. Supreme Court briefs, see: 2014 WL 5463360 (Resp.Brief) 2014 WL 5449619 (Resp.Brief) 2014 WL 5449618 (Reply.Brief) 2021 WL 4729950 (Reply.Brief) 2021 WL 4729976 (Reply.Brief) 2021 WL 4729956 (Reply.Brief) 2021 WL 4729982 (Reply.Brief) 2021 WL 4729953 (Reply.Brief) 2021 WL 4731360 (Pet.Supp.Brief) 2021 WL 4731365 (Resp.Supp.Brief)

The City of Memphis sits on the banks of the Mississippi River in the southwest corner of Tennessee. Arkansas marks the City's western border, and Mississippi its southern. Hundreds of feet beneath Memphis lies one of the City's most valuable resources: the Middle Claiborne Aquifer. Workers...

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