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STATE EX REL. MARTINEZ v. LEWIS

No. 11718.

861 P.2d 235 (1993)

116 N.M.App. 194

STATE of new mexico, ex rel., Eluid Martinez, State Engineer, and Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. L.T. LEWIS, et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees. STATE of New Mexico, ex rel., Eluid MARTINEZ, State Engineer, and Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HAGERMAN CANAL CO., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied August 25, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha C. Franks, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiffs-appellees/cross-appellants State of N.M., ex rel., Eluid Martinez, State Engineer, and Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy Dist.

Richard A. Simms, James C. Brockman, Simms & Stein, P.A., Neil C. Stillinger, Santa Fe, for defendant-appellee, Water Defense Ass'n.

Herbert A. Becker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Albuquerque, Blake A. Watson, Andrew C. Mergen, Appellate Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellant/cross-appellee, U.S.

Leslie L. Seckler, Albuquerque, George Fettinger, Fettinger & Bloom, Alamogordo, for defendant-appellant/cross-appellee, Mescalero Apache Tribe.

OPINION

PICKARD, Judge.

This case is a continuation of the general adjudication of the Rio Hondo River system. It specifically involves the water rights of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. See State ex rel. Reynolds v. Lewis, 88 N.M. 636, 637, 545 P.2d 1014, 1015 (1976) [hereinafter Lewis I], in which our Supreme Court held that the McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. § 666(a) (1970), granted...

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