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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law

Plaintiffs alleged that despite advance knowledge of the likelihood for significant downstream flooding, SRA-L decided to open spillway gates freeing water from the reservoir into the Sabine River to alleviate elevated reservoir volumes from a cataclysmic rain storm in March of 2016. Hawkins , 381 F.3d 3d 407, 411-12 (5th Cir. 4] Voyt v.

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