Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas
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Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas
Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas, 458 U.S. 941 (1982), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that a Nebraska statute forbidding commercial exportation of water from Nebraska was unconstitutional in that it violated the dormant commerce clause .
The boundary between the states of Nebraska and Colorado passed through a farm owned by Sporhase. He drilled a well in Nebraska and used the water to irrigate his land on both sides of the boundary.[_citation needed
_] Under the 11th Amendment
, he could not sue the state of Nebraska in a federal district court; consequently his suit had to proceed in the state courts in Nebraska until he petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review it.
See also
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Further reading
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- Barnett, B. M. (1984). "Mixing Water and the Commerce Clause: the Problems of Practice, Precedent, and Policy in Sporhase v. Nebraska". Natural Resources Journal. 24 (1): 161–194. ISSN 0028-0739 .
- Chan, A. H. (1989). "To Market or Not to Market: Allocation of Interstate Waters". Natural Resources Journal. 29 (2): 529–547. ISSN 0028-0739 .
- Greenberg, A. D. (1983). "Sporhase v. Nebraska: The Muddying of Commerce Clause Waters". Ecology Law Quarterly. 11 (2): 215–239. ISSN 0046-1121 .
- McCormick, Zachary (2007). "Institutional Barriers to Water Marketing in the West". Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 30 (6): 953–961. doi :10.1111/j.1752-1688.1994.tb03343.x .
External links
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- Text of Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas, 458 U.S. 941 (1982) is available from: CourtListener Findlaw Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)
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