STATE OF N.M. EX REL. REYNOLDS v. AAMODT

No. 6639-M Civil.

618 F.Supp. 993 (1985)

STATE OF NEW MEXICO ex rel. S.E. REYNOLDS, State Engineer, Plaintiff, v. R. Lee AAMODT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Mexico.

September 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Rapkoch, Las Cruces, N.M., for Joseph J. Roybal.

Sterling F. Black, Albuquerque, N.M., for Robert S. Harper.

Montgomery, Federici & Andrews, Santa Fe, N.M., for N.A. Owings; Mrs. Edgar Rossin; Mrs. Albert Schmidt; A.P. MacDonald; Oscar B. Huffman; John P. Bradley; M.T. Hudgings; Louise H. Smith; Duncan J. Ross; Robert McKinney; Emily L. Bradley.

White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, L.C. White, Santa Fe, N.M., for C.V. Biemfohr; N.G. Collins; Bengt Carlson; Juanita Martinez; Frank H. Mercer; Otis Horn; Rufus C. Little; Clifford Pond; Ray Pond; George Yardman; Ellis Bauer; William C. Spain; Kirby Kennedy; Roy L. Melvin; Charlie Ortega; Thomas Andersen, Daniel Donald Van Soelen, co-Executors of the Estate of Virginia Carr Van Soelen, deceased; Leland Thompson, Jr. Marshall L. McCune; L.C. White; James Sheil; Kew Craft, Inc.; John C. Craig Jr.; Robert M. Landis and Elizabeth H. Landis.

Claude S. Sena, Santa Fe, N.M., for Jose F. Ortiz; Isaac Garcia; Josefa G. Sena; Mrs. Robert Sena; Mrs. Pablo Sena; Reyes R. Jacquez; Serafin Roybal; Dolores R. Roybal; Carolina R. Smith; Jose D. Roybal; Nestora R. Garduno; Adella R. Herrera; Vicente Roybal.

Bigbee, Byrd, Carpenter & Stephenson, Santa Fe, N.M., for Lewis Barker; Winifred G. Barker; Clifford Whitehead; W.A. Friedman; Marjorie M. Williams.

Snyder H. Downs, Santa Fe, N.M., for Ann Clark.

Jones, Gallegos, Snead & Wertheim, Santa Fe, N.M., for I.L. Boren d.b.a. Del Norte Truck Stop; Presciliano Trujillo; Louise T. McKinney.

Campbell & Olmsted, Santa Fe, N.M., for Mrs. Marjorie Williams; Charles Loughridge.

Mitchell & Mitchell, Santa Fe, N.M., for Lake Peak Corp.

Catron, Catron & Sawtell, Thomas B. Catron, Santa Fe, N.M., for Jerome R.A. Monks; Agnes James; George E. Challenger; Victor Babin; John A. Dillon, Jr.; Philip L. Shultz; M.R. Bigelow; John Crosby; George Willis; William H. Dougherty; Sue C. Bergere; William J. Wilson; Board of Educ. of City of Santa Fe, Herny R. Hoyt and Pablo Roybal.

Jere C. Corlett, Santa Fe, N.M., for C.C. Ladenberger.

Fred Standley, Santa Fe, N.M., for Sangre de Cristo Development Co., Inc., d/b/a Colonias de Santa Fe.

Ussery, Burciaga & Parrish, Albuquerque, N.M., for Pueblo of Isleta.

Ashby, Rose & Sholer, P.A., Philip R. Ashby, Albuquerque, N.M., for San Ildefonso Pueblo.

Rodey Firm-Wm. Schaab, Albuquerque, N.M., for Nambe Pueblo.

Zinn & Donnell, John D. Donnell, Santa Fe, N.M., for Pueblo de Tesuque.

Justin Reid, Santa Fe, N.M., for Charles S. Thomas & Elaine Thomas interest to Louis H. Smith & Burton L. Smith.

Montgomery, Andrews & Hannahs, P.A., Frank Andrews III, Nancy M. Anderson, Santa Fe, N.M., for Public Service Co. of New Mexico.

Thomas A. Garrity, Field Sol., Dept. of Interior, Amarillo, Tex., Charles N. Estes, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Albuquerque, N.M., for U.S.

Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Donald M. Salazar, Santa Fe, N.M., for Pueblo de Pojoaque.

Watson, Stillinger & Lunt, Neil C. Stillinger, Santa Fe, N.M., for Ralph Petty and Virginia Goodwin, Co-personal representatives of the estate of Walter L. Goodwin, Jr., Bishop Lodge Co., Dr. Eliot F. Porter, Mrs. Letitia Evans Frank, Mrs. Wilfred Stedman, Acequia Madre Ditch Assoc., Mr. William Williams, Mr. Stanley Samuels.

Joseph G. Lawler, Sommer & Lawler, P.A., Santa Fe, N.M., for Pita E. Valencia.

Daniel A. Sanchez, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N.M., for S.E. Reynolds, Engineer.

Paul M. Seeley, Bernard Kleinman, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Elmer L. and Dorothy Dresslar.

Neil C. Stillinger, Santa Fe, N.M., for Richard and Mary Harris.

Lyle E. Teutsch, Jr., Santa Fe, N.M., for Stanley E. Teutsch.

C. Mott Woolley, Stephenson, Carpenter, Crout & Olmsted, Santa Fe, N.M., for Kilberg.

Peter Thomas White, G. Emlen Hall, Office of the State Engineer, Santa Fe, N.M., for State of N.M.

Richard A. Simms, Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Santa Fe, N.M., for Peter Clout; Charles Klotsche; James Pease; Jon Gerster; Steve Flance; Mark Murry; John Egan and Betty Egan.

Myles Flint, Chief, Indian Resources Section, Land & Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S. and Pueblo plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MECHEM, Senior District Judge.

The State Engineer of New Mexico filed this action to adjudicate the water of the Tesuque & Nambe/Pojoaque Stream System, a tributary of the Rio Grande, between the various water users within the watershed, including, among others, the United States and the Pueblos de Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso and Tesuque (Pueblos). N.M.Stat.Ann. 75-2-9 (1953). The United States purported to represent the...

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