A Santa Barbara Superior Court judge … overruled an attempt by Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District to stop a matter pertaining to Tehachapi Basin water rights from being decided as part of a probate case. Attorney Robert Kuhs, the water district’s legal counsel, said in an email … that the court adopted its tentative ruling as an order and denied the district’s motion during the Oct. 3 hearing. The water district’s filing included an assertion that the water rights case belongs in Kern County — not Santa Barbara — because a 1971 judgment in Kern County Superior Court established water rights in Tehachapi Basin and designated the water district as Watermaster.