Explication for non lawyers?
Sorry explanation
Issue: Whether Florida is entitled to equitable apportionment of the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and appropriate injunctive relief against Georgia to sustain an adequate flow of fresh water into the Apalachicola Region. CVSG: 09/18/2014.
Judgment: Case remanded, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Breyer on June 27, 2018. Justice Thomas filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Alito, Kagan and Gorsuch joined.
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/florida-v-georgia-2/
Odd mix of judges?
No more hoochie coochie on the Chattahoochee................
Appalachia olga has good scallops
Florida has waged a long and expensive legal battle against Georgia’s growing consumption of river water, which ultimately deprives the oyster beds and other downstream fisheries of the Apalachicola River estuary in the Florida panhandle. Unusually, since the case is between two states, the US Supreme Court has original jurisdiction. Thus the court appointed a special master to hear the case. Florida lost the decision by the special master. On review, the Supreme Court directed that the special master had to revisit some legal and factual issues. Florida get a partial victory, but it seems unlikely to get much if any relief in the end.