Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 5, 2018 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- March 5, 2018
- Term
- October Term 2017
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Gorsuch
- Issue area
- Interstate Relations
- Outcome
- Unclear
- Ideological direction
- Unspecifiable
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2017 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO ET AL. ON EXCEPTIONS TO REPORT OF SPECIAL MASTER No. 141, Orig. Argued January 8, 2018—Decided March 5, 2018 To resolve their disputes over water rights in the Rio Grande, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, with Congress’s approval, signed the Rio Grande Compact. The Compact requires Colorado to deliver a speci- fied amount of water annually to New Mexico at the state line and directs New Mexico to deliver a specified amount of water to the Ele- phant Butte Reservoir. The Reservoir was completed in 1916 as part of the Federal Government’s Rio Grande Project and plays a central role in fulfilling the United States’s obligations to supply water under a 1906 treaty with Mexico as well as under several agreements with downstream water districts in New Mexico and Texas (Downstream Contracts). Texas brought this original action complaining that New Mexico has violated the Compact by allowing downstream New Mexico…
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