NORVELL v. SANGRE de CRISTO DEVELOPMENT CO., INC.

Nos. 74-1365 to 74-1367.

519 F.2d 370 (1975)

David L. NORVELL, Attorney General of the State of New Mexico, et al., Appellees, v. SANGRE de CRISTO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., and Rogers C. B. Morton, et al., Appellants, and Mescalero Apache Tribe, Appellant-Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Bloom, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N. M. (Frank Bachicha, Jr., Bd. of County Commissioners, Santa Fe, N. M., and Harry S. Connelly, Jr., Santa Fe, N. M., on the brief), for appellee, Norvell.

Frank Bachicha, Jr., Santa Fe, N. M., for Bd. of County Commissioners, Santa Fe, N. Mex., Intervenor-Appellee.

John J. Zimmerman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Edmund B. Clark, Anthony S. Borwick, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N. M., Victor R. Ortega, U. S. Atty., Richard J. Smith, Asst. U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., on the brief), for appellant, Rogers C. B. Morton.

George E. Fettinger, Alamogordo, N. M. (Norman D. Bloom, Jr., Alamogordo, N. M., on the brief), for appellant-intervenor Mescalero Apache Tribe.

Philip R. Ashby, P. A., Albuquerque, N. M., amici curiae for Pueblo De Chochiti and Pueblo of San Ildefonso.

Toby F. Grossman, Albuquerque, N. M., answer brief on behalf of amicus curiae, American Indian Law Center.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and HOLLOWAY and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.


BARRETT, Circuit Judge.

This action was initiated by the State of New Mexico (hereinafter referred to as State or Appellee) in which the Board of Commissioners of Santa Fe County, New Mexico was permitted to join as Intervenor (hereinafter referred to as Board) against Sangre de Cristo Development Company, Inc., et al., (hereinafter referred to as Company), and Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior of the United States, et al., (hereinafter referred to as...

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