HAMAATSA, INC. v. PUEBLO OF SAN FELIPE

NO. S-1-SC-34287.

388 P.3d 977 (2016)

2017-NMSC-007

HAMAATSA, INC., a New Mexico not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. PUEBLO OF SAN FELIPE, a federally recognized Indian tribe, Defendant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

June 16, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel D. Gollis, Attorney at Law, P.C., Samuel D. Gollis , Gwenellen P. Janov , Albuquerque, NM, for Petitioner.

The Simons Firm, L.L.P., Thomas A. Simons, IV , Faith Kalman Reyes , Santa Fe, NM, for Respondent.

Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Paul Spruhan , Assistant Attorney General, Window Rock, AZ, for Amicus Curiae, Navajo Nation.

Bergen Law Offices, L.L.C., Leander Bergen , Albuquerque, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Ohkay Owingeh.

Tammi M. Lambert , Laguna, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Pueblo of Laguna.

VanAmberg, Rogers, Yepa, Abeita, Gomez & Works, LLP, Carolyn J. Abeita , Albuquerque, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Pueblo de San Ildefonso.

Steffani A. Cochran , Chief General Counsel, Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Pueblo of Pojoaque.

Leger Law & Strategy, LLC, Teresa Isabel Leger , Cynthia Kiersnowski , Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Pueblo of Santo Domingo.

Maxine R. Velasquez , General Counsel, Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Pueblo of Tesuque.

John D. Wheeler & Associates, P.C., John D. Wheeler , Nelva Lena Cervantes , Arslanbek Sanjarovich Umarov , Alamogordo, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Mescalero Apache Tribe.

Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Schoenburg & Bienvenu, L.L.P., Richard Warren Hughes , Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae, Picuris Pueblo.

Miller Stratvert, P.A., Richard L. Alvidrez , Albuquerque, NM, for Amicus Curiae, New Mexico Land Title Association.


OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

{1} The Pueblo of San Felipe (Pueblo) appeals from an opinion of the New Mexico Court of Appeals declining to extend the Pueblo, an Indian tribe, immunity from suit. Because it is settled federal law that sovereign Indian tribes enjoy immunity from suit in state and federal...

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