COTTON PETROLEUM CORP. ET AL.
v.
NEW MEXICO ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 30, 1988
Decided April 25, 1989
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Daniel H. Israel argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs was G. Samuel Schaunaman II.
Hal Stratton, Attorney General of New Mexico, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Henry M. Bohnhoff, Deputy Attorney General, George W. K. Snyder, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Frank D. Katz, Daniel Yohalem, and Deborah A. Moll, Special Assistant Attorneys General.*
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Arizona et al. by A. Raymond Randolph, Special Assistant Attorney General of Utah, Bruce R. Stewart, John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General of California, and James B. Cuneo, Deputy Attorney General, Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, David L. Wilkinson, Attorney General of Utah, and Michael M. Quealy, Assistant Attorney General, Robert K. Corbin, Attorney General of Arizona, and Anthony B. Ching, Solicitor General Duane Woodward, Attorney General of Colorado, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General of Florida, Michael T. Greely, Attorney General of Montana, Robert H. Henry, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General of Washington, Joseph B. Meyer, Attorney General of Wyoming, Nicholas J. Spaeth, Attorney General of North Dakota, Roger A. Tellinghuisen, Attorney General of South Dakota, and Donald J. Hanaway, Attorney General of Wisconsin; and for San Juan County et al. by Lyle Robert Anderson.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for Texaco Inc. et al. by Bruce Douglas Black and Alan L. Sullivan; for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe by Frank E. Maynes; and for the Crow Tribe et al. by Catherine Baker Stetson.
Supreme Court of United States.
JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case is a sequel to Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe,455 U.S. 130 (1982), in which we held that the Jicarilla Apache Tribe (Tribe) has the power to impose a severance tax on the production of oil and gas by non-Indian lessees of wells located on the Tribe's reservation. We must now decide whether the State of New Mexico...
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