News & Insights from Marzulla Law

September 2025
 
 
 

Early this month, a coalition of California cities, irrigation districts, and family farmers—represented in part by Marzulla Law—filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court. The petition asks the Court to review one of the most significant water rights disputes in decades and is the subject of our Spotlight this month.

 
 
 

SPOTLIGHT

Fighting for Water Rights: Fresno and Friant Growers Take Their Case to Supreme Court


Should growers of the California Central Valley hold compensable property rights in the water supplied by federal reclamation projects? At stake is not only the livelihood of thousands of farmers in the San Joaquin Valley, but also the Constitutional promise that private property cannot be taken for public use without just compensation.

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Property Rights Victory in the Works? White House May Issue Executive Order on Taking Under ESA

The Trump administration recently signaled a possible shift to treat ESA restrictions as a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment, requiring just compensation to landowners.
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Intern Spotlight: Neda Ahmad

Neda Ahmad is from Phoenix and is a junior at Arizona State University.


“My internship with Marzulla Law has given me so much unique experience into the everyday operation of a law firm. It has been amazing to work alongside such seasoned professionals in the center of the nation’s legal system.”
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Also from Marzulla Law

A FEDERAL TAKINGS LAW PRIMER

Your Guide on How to Protect Your Rights in Regulatory Takings and Inverse Condemnation Actions

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THE TUCKER ACT

How to Tell if Your Tucker Act Claim Is Disguised as an APA Claim

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MARZULLA LAW

Representing property owners, including real property owners, developers, and intellectual property owners; contractors with monetary claims against the United States; and others challenging federal actions as confiscatory or arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law.

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