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jurisdiction, as the dam was allowed by federal law. Restore Hetch Hetchy appealed, and the
California Attorney General opined that the matter should be tried on the technical, not legal, merits. In July 2018, the appeals court threw out the lawsuit, declaring that Congress had overruled the state. The case was taken to the California Supreme Court which, in mid-October 2018, rejected the lawsuit in a 3–0 ruling.
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Francisco through a referendum. Proposition F, which would've allocated money to identify other sources of water with a stated goal of restoring the valley went before San Francisco voters in November 2012.
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Administration, the national Sierra Club created a group dedicated to restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park called the Hetch Hetchy Restoration Task Force. In 1999, the Club created a separate non-profit organization
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Supervisors, and Senator Dianne Feinstein. It was soundly rejected, with 76.9% of voters against the proposition.
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