The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Florida’s water lawsuit against Georgia on Thursday, ending the long-running legal fight between the two states. The case involved the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers in Georgia, which join to form the Apalachicola River at the Florida line. The court rejected Florida’s claim that Georgia uses too much of the water that flows from the Atlanta suburbs to the Gulf of Mexico. Florida said that its neighbor’s overconsumption is to blame for the decimation of Florida’s oyster industry. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court that Florida failed to prove its case, which had been before the court twice in the past three years. “Considering the record as a whole, Florida has not shown that it is ‘highly probable’ that Georgia’s alleged overconsumption played more than a trivial role in the collapse of Florida’s oyster fisheries,” Barrett wrote. The court’s newest justice cautioned that she …
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