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Best Best & Krieger
Managing partner of the law firm of Best Best & Krieger and an adjunct professor of Water Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law
PROFILE
Eric Garner
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FROM Eric Garner
Which Way, L.A.?
The Drought Means a Flood of Lawsuits in California Mario Arnaudo is manger of the Arnaudo Brothers farm near Tracy in California's central valley. He's a fifth-generation cattle farmer, who bought land in the 1960's — with water rights that were granted before 1914. But two weeks ago, the pumps were turned off and there's no water now in his irrigation canal.
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