UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant,
v.
CITY OF LAS CRUCES; Hudspeth County Conservation and Reclamation District No. 1; City of El Paso; New Mexico State University; Stahmann Farms, a New Mexico corporation; State of New Mexico, ex rel. State Engineer, Defendants-Appellees,
El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Cross-Claimant,
v.
Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee.
State of Texas; Lower Valley Water District; Pueblo of Isleta Del Sur; State of Colorado; James Scott Boyd, Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Ellington Boyd, Intervenors.
United States of America, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant,
v.
City of Las Cruces; Hudspeth County Conservation and Reclamation District No. 1; New Mexico State University; Stahmann Farms, a New Mexico corporation; State of New Mexico, ex rel. State Engineer, Defendants-Appellees,
El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Cross-Claimant, and
City of El Paso, Defendant-Appellant,
v.
Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee.
State of Texas; Lower Valley Water; Pueblo of Isleta Del Sur; State of Colorado; James Scott Boyd, Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Ellington Boyd, Intervenors.
United States of America, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant,
v.
City of Las Cruces; Hudspeth County Conservation and Reclamation District No. 1; City of El Paso; New Mexico State University; Stahmann Farms, a New Mexico corporation; State of New Mexico, ex rel. State Engineer, Defendants-Appellees, and
El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Cross-Claimant-Appellant,
v.
Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee.
State of Texas; Lower Valley Water; Pueblo of Isleta Del Sur; State of Colorado; James Scott Boyd, Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Ellington Boyd, Intervenors.
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May 7, 2002.
May 7, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Andrew C. Mergen, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (John Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey Dobbins, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Lynn Johnson, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; John W. Zavitz, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Albuquerque, NM; Chris Rich, U.S. Department of the Interior, Salt Lake City, UT; with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant.
Jay F. Stein, James C. Brockmann, Stein & Brockmann, P.A., Santa Fe, NM, on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee City of Las Cruces.
Benjamin Phillips, Rebecca Dempsey, White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, P.A., Santa Fe, NM; Douglas G. Caroom, Delgado, Acosta & Bickerstaff, Heath, P.L.L.C., on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee City of El Paso.
Luis G. Stelzner, John W. Utton, Sheehan, Sheehan & Stelzner, P.A., Albuquerque, NM; Charles T. DuMars, Christina Bruff DuMars, Law & Resource Planning Assoc., Albuquerque, NM, on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee New Mexico State University.
Joel T. Newton, Miller, Stratvert & Torgerson, P.A., Las Cruces, NM, on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee Stahmann Farms.
Susanne Hoffman-Dooley (Gregory C. Ridgley, with her on the briefs), Santa Fe, NM, for Defendant-Appellee State of New Mexico, ex rel. State Engineer.
James M. Speer, Jr., El Paso, Texas, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Cross-Claimant-Appellant El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1.
Beverly J. Singleman, Stephen A. Hubert, Las Cruces, NM, on the briefs for Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee Elephant Butte Irrigation District of New Mexico.
Before BRISCOE, MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This is an appeal from the district court's order dismissing the United States' suit to quiet title to water rights in a portion of the Rio Grande River. The district court dismissed the suit under the Colorado River doctrine and, in the alternative, under the Brillhart doctrine. This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and holds that the district court did not abuse its discretion when...
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