FEATURE ARTICLE

August 2005

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Court Provisionally Approves Stipulation to End Eight-Year Santa Maria Basin Adjudication

On July 7, 2005 Judge Jack Komar of the Santa Clara County Superior Court provisionally approved a stipulation advanced on behalf of most of the active litigants in this adjudication, a stipulation that will end the litigation for most parties and put in place a basin management scheme that effectively resolves the issues that separate competing interests in the basin.