MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE v. STATE OF N. M.

No. 78-1790.

677 F.2d 55 (1982)

MESCALERO APACHE TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO and Harold F. Olson, Individually and as Director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, or his successors in office, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 26, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff Bingaman, Atty. Gen., Thomas L. Dunigan, Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas Patrick Whelan, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N. M., for defendants-appellants.

George E. Fettinger and Kim Jerome Gottschalk of Fettinger & Bloom, Alamogordo, N. M., for plaintiff-appellee.

Carol E. Dinkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert L. Klarquist and Edward J. Shawaker, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S. as amicus curiae.

B. Reid Haltom and Marcia L. Green of Nordhaus, Haltom & Taylor, Albuquerque, N. M., for the Jicarilla Apache Tribe as amicus curiae.

Before DOYLE, BREITENSTEIN and McKAY, Circuit Judges.


McKAY, Circuit Judge.

In Mescalero Apache Tribe v. New Mexico, 630 F.2d 724 (10th Cir. 1980), this court affirmed an order of the district court enjoining the State of New Mexico from enforcing its game laws against non-Indians who hunt and fish within the boundaries of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. Subsequently the United States Supreme Court granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari, vacated this court...

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