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OKLAHOMA CITY -- A Texas water supply agency is asking the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite its case against a moratorium on selling Oklahoma water to other states.
Attorneys for the Tarrant Regional Water District told the appeals court their client was entitled to a prompt opportunity to purchase water in Oklahoma just as much as an Oklahoma water user is.
The case came to the federal appeals court a month ago as an Oklahoma Water Resources Board request to throw out a lawsuit of the Fort Worth, Texas-based water district. The lawsuit, in federal court in Oklahoma City, seeks to have Oklahoma's embargo declared unconstitutional.
The water district's nine-page request to have the appeals court put the case on a fast track comes nine days after efforts to resolve the dispute by mediation ended.
The request stated that a speedy resolution of the case is needed because it raises grave constitutional questions on issues having widespread public importance and impact.
The district provides water to 1.6 million people.
The ban on out-of-state water sales was imposed in 2001.
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