STATE OF NEW MEXICO, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
R. Lee AAMODT, et al., Defendants-Appellees,
United States of America, et al., Intervenors and Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 12, 1975.
Decided June 28, 1976.
Rehearing Denied August 11, 1976.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Walter Kiechel, Jr., Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C. (Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Victor R. Ortega, U.S. Atty., Albuquerque, N.M., and Kathryn A. Oberly and Charles N. Estes, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant U.S.
Philip R. Ashby and William C. Schaab, Albuquerque, N. M. (John D. Donnell, Zinn & Donnell, Santa Fe, N. M., Ashby, Rose & Sholer and Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, Albuquerque, N. M., on the brief), for Pueblo appellants.
Paul L. Bloom, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N. M., for appellee State of N. M.
Neil C. Stillinger of Watson, Stillinger & Lunt, Santa Fe, N. M. (Sumner Buell of Montgomery, Federici, Andrews, Hannahs & Buell, Thomas B. Catron of Catron, Catron & Sawtell, G. Stanley Crout of Bigbee, Byrd, Carpenter & Crout, L. C. White of White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, Santa Fe, N. M., on the brief), for private landowner appellees.
James C. Thompson, Espanola, N. M., filed a brief for amicus curiae Bd. of Directors El Llano Conservancy Dist.
L. Lamar Parrish of Ussery, Burciago & Parrish, Albuquerque, N. M., filed a brief for amici curiae Pueblo of Isleta and the Pueblo of Sandia.
Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
The basic issue before us is whether water uses by Pueblo Indians in New Mexico are controlled by state water law based on the doctrine of prior appropriation. The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico made an interlocutory order that the Indian uses were controlled by state law. On the petitions of the United States and the Indians we allowed an appeal in No. 75-1106 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) and now reverse...
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