Farkas v. UCBR

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Absolute water rights used in one location may be quantified and changed for use . . . .”
• \Absolute water rights used in one location may be quantified and changed for use. ...\
• “The Nepom court did not suggest, let alone hold, that a party bringing a challenge under ORS 309.100 must challenge the total land valuation or total improvement valuation because of the structure of ORS 308.215(1
• “Because water rights are usufructuary in nature, the measure of a water right is the amount of water historically withdrawn and consumed over time in the course of applying water to beneficial use under the tributary appropriation without diminishment of return flows.”
• “Over an extended period of time, a pattern of historic diversions and use under the decreed right at its place of use will mature and become the measure of the water right for change purposes, typically quantified in acre-feet of water consumed.”
• “Abandonment is not favored under Colorado water law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).