The CITY OF EL PASO, By and Through its PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, Ray Pearson, Carlton C. Homan, Jr., Louie Giallanza, Clinton E. Wolf, and Thomas D. Westfall, Plaintiffs,
v.
S.E. REYNOLDS, individually and as State Engineer of New Mexico, Paul G. Bardacke, individually and as Attorney General of New Mexico, Lalo Garza, individually and as New Mexico District Attorney for Dona Ana County, Defendants,
Elephant Butte Irrigation District, the City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Stahmann Farms, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors.
United States District Court, D. New Mexico.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 3, 1984.
August 3, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Vinson & Elkins, Harry M. Reasoner, Charles L. Berry, Houston, Tex., P.M. Schenkkan, Austin, Tex., Jeffrey Civins, Charles W. Schwartz, Houston, Tex., Scott, Hulse, Marshall & Fueille, James L. Gallagher, El Paso, Tex., Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Harold L. Hensley, Jr., K. Douglas Perrin, Roswell, N.M., Paul L. Bloom, Washington, D.C., William Booker Kelly, Benjamin Phillips, White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, Sante Fe, N.M., for plaintiffs.
Stephen D. Dillon, Jeffrey L. Fornaciari, Richard A. Simms, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Douglas Meiklejohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Water Resources Division, Santa Fe, N.M., Michael B. Browde, Albuquerque, N.M., for defendants Paul Bardacke and S.E. Reynolds.
Ralph Wm. Richards, Weinbrenner, Richards, Paulowsky & Sandenaw, P.A., Las Cruces, N.M., for defendant/intervenor Stahmann Farms, Inc., and defendant Lalo Garza.
Stephen A. Hubert, Steven L. Hernandez, James A. Roggow, Martin, Cresswell & Hubert, P.A., Las Cruces, N.M., for defendant/intervenor Elephant Butte Irrigation District and defendant Lalo Garza.
Ray E. Riordan, City Atty., Robert B. Kelley, Deputy City Atty., Las Cruces, N.M., for defendant City of Las Cruces.
United States District Court, D. New Mexico.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BRATTON, Chief Judge.
The City of El Paso et al. filed this suit in 1980 seeking a declaratory judgment that New Mexico's embargo on the out-of-state use of ground water, N.M.Stat.Ann. § 72-12-19 (1978), impermissibly burdened interstate commerce in contravention of the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Defendants, the state officials responsible for enforcing New Mexico's water laws, responded that it was the Rio...
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