The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled on a case regarding a decades-long water allocation dispute among Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. In his dissenting opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch, who sided with the states, said the court's decision, 'defies 100 years of this Court's water law jurisprudence.'Texas v.
' He noted that Special Master Michael Melloy, whom the court appointed in 2018, approved of the proposed decree.In 2023, Melloy, a federal circuit court judge, found the proposed consent decree to be 'fair, reasonable, and consistent with the Compact,' as described in the New Mexico Department of Justice's press release.
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