Is Kansas Entitled to Money Damages for Breach of the Arkansas River Compact?
Kansas v. Colorado Docket No. 105, Original From: Original Jurisdiction Case at a Glance In 1995, Kansas was successful in winning a judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court that Colorado has violated the Arkansas River Compact. This case continues the remedy stage of that litigation and raises, primarily, two issues: one a multi-million dollar question pertaining to the availability of prejudgment interest in the earliest years of underdelivery, the other an Eleventh Amendment defense that contends Kansas cannot be awarded a money judgment because it is acting as a surrogate for the injured individuals. • Previewed by Robert H. Abrams, a professor of law at Wayne State University School of Law in Detroit, Mich.
