The Edwards Aquifer Authority and the State of Texas v. Burrell Day and Joel McDaniel

How courts have described this case

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• stating that these guarantees are generally construed the same
• instructing Texas courts to look to federal jurisprudence for takings analysis
• “[A] landowner has a right to exclude others from groundwater beneath his property, but one that cannot be used to prevent ordinary drainage.”
• “Today we have decided that landowners do have a constitutionally compensable interest in groundwater . . . .”
• employing the term “subsurface reservoir” in reference to Edwards Aquifer
• discussing similarities and differences regarding ownership of each substance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).