The U.S. Supreme Court has appointed a Portland, Maine, lawyer to oversee a Florida lawsuit alleging Georgia’s water consumption has drained flows into the Apalachicola Bay, home of Florida’s oyster industry. Ralph I. Lancaster will serve as special master with authority to set the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings, direct proceedings, summon witnesses and issue subpoenas. He also can “take such evidence as may be introduced and such as he may deem it necessary to call for,” according to the high court’s website.