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JICARILLA APACHE TRIBE v. BD. OF CTY COM'RS

No. 21476.

883 P.2d 136 (1994)

118 N.M. 550

JICARILLA APACHE TRIBE, Petitioner-Respondent, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY OF RIO ARRIBA, State of New Mexico, Respondent-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied October 19, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis Luchetti, Espanola, for petitioner.

Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash & Frye, Wayne H. Bladh, Santa Fe, for respondent.

OPINION

MONTGOMERY, Chief Justice.

This case involves the subject of federal Indian law. We discuss the subject with some trepidation, given the considerable body of federal statutes and the vast array of sometimes confusing cases surrounding the subject. Nevertheless, the issue in the case, as the parties stressed at oral argument, is a quite narrow one; and its resolution directly affects a matter in which the appellate courts of this state are...

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