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Nebraska district court upholds water tax
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A judge has upheld a state law that says natural resources districts in Nebraska's Republican River basin can levy a per-acre tax on irrigated land. The Lancaster County District Court released the opinion on Friday. LeRoy Sievers, an attorney representing the plaintiffs fighting the law, said the decision likely will be appealed. The decision came two years after a different judge struck down a property tax that was part of the same law permitting the per-acre tax. As with the property tax, arguments against the per-acre tax focused on it being unconstitutional because it could be used only in the Republican basin. But Judge Robert Otte said plaintiffs didn't convince him that it was highly improbable that the tax couldn't someday apply to other areas.


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