MIDDLE RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, Plaintiff,
v.
Bruce BABBITT, et al., Federal Defendants.
State of New Mexico, ex rel the State Engineer, New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, and the New Mexico Attorney General, Plaintiffs,
v.
Bruce Babbitt, et al., Federal Defendants.
Forest Guardians, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Bruce Babbitt, et. al., Federal Defendants.
United States District Court, D. New Mexico.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 21, 2000.
November 21, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Luis G. Stelzner, Timothy M. Sheehan, John W. Uttom, Sheehan, Sheehan & Stelzner, Albuquerque, NM, Charles T. DuMars, Christina Bruff DuMars, Law & Resource Planning Associates, Albuquerque, NM, James B. Smith, J. Brian Smith Law Firm, LLC, Albuquerque, NM, for Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District.
John E. Stroud, Special Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, Karen L. Fisher, State of New Mexico, Interstate Stream Commission, Sante Fe, NM, Judith C. Hutchinson, Pamela S. Bacon, Perry C. Abernethy, Edward J. Apodaca, NM State Engineering Office, Legal Division, Santa Fe, NM, Tammy A. Zokan, Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke Chartered, Boise, ID, for plaintiff New Mexico ex rel. Office of State Engineers, New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission state Stream Commission.
Stuart M. Bluestone, Glenn R. Smith, Stephen R. Farris, Patricia A. Madrid, NM Attorney General's Office, Santa Fe, NM, John E. Stroud, Special Assistant Attorney General, Sante Fe, NM, for plaintiff Attorney General of State of New Mexico.
John W. Zavitz, Norman C. Bay, Andrew A. Smith, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Lois J. Schiffer, Jane P. Davenport, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, Washington, DC, Matthew A. Love, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Wild Life & Marine Resources Section, Washington, DC, Adam Issenberg, Albuquerque, NM, for defendant Department of Interior Bruce Babbitt, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jamie Rappaport Clark, Director, United States fish and Wildlife Service, Nancy Kaufman, Southwest Regional Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Lee E. Peters, Hurbert & Hernandez, Las Cruces, NM, for intervenor New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau.
United States District Court, D. New Mexico.
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MECHEM, Senior District Judge.
Plaintiffs in each of these consolidated cases challenge a final rule of the Secretary of the Interior which designates critical habitat for the Rio Grande silvery minnow, a small and rapidly disappearing fish declared an endangered species in 1994. Plaintiffs complain pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Administrative Procedures Act and the...
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