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WRRC, Sol Resnick Conference Room, Tucson, AZ
Speaker: Jack August, Executive Director, Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest
Many 20th Century court cases could be considered "the case of the century" from Fatty Arbuckle's murder trial in the 1920s to the Scopes Monkey Trial to Brown v. Board of Education. But these cases pale in comparison to Arizona v. California – the longest Supreme Court case in American history – a Hurculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The interstate and international contentions stretched back over a century and the implications of Arizona v. California are being played out to this day.