Applicants/Appellants: ISG, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; Big Bend Farms, LLLP, a Colorado limited liability limited partnership; Dean L & C Company, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Joann Fletcher; Hans Friederichs Jr.; Jo Leyne White Heckman Friederichs; Lorella L. Gadash; Merle G. Hays Children's Trust; Clarence A. Hays; Darrel W. Hays; Delbert R. Hays; Burt White Heckman; Caryol Heckman; Frederick Heckman; Laura White Heckman; Margaret K. Hunker; Charles O. Jones; Ruby L. Jones; Raymond L. May; Tresa I. May; the McKinnis Family Partnership, Ltd., a Colorado limited partnership; Glenda McWilson; Kent Miller; Peg Miller; Dennis Netherton; David H. Nunnery; Anita R. Pointon; Charles T. Pointon; Keith Rasmussen; Gale Tempel; Melody Tempel; Judith M. Tigner; Dawn K. Vanhook; John R. Vodneck; Joshua P. Weimer; Patricia Weimer; Paul Weimer; Barbara Wertz; Steven Wertz; Wooten Investments, Ltd., a Colorado limited partnership; and Michael Lynn Wyckoff.
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Objectors/Appellees: ARKANSAS VALLEY DITCH ASSOCIATION and its members the Bessemer Irrigating Ditch Company, Oxford Farmers Ditch Company, Catlin Canal Company (which also filed a separate Statement of Opposition and is named again below), High Line Canal Company, Rocky Ford Ditch Company, Board of Water Works of Pueblo; City of Aurora; Bent County Board of County Commissioners; Catlin Canal Company; Colorado Canal Company; Colorado Springs Utilities; Colorado Water Conservation Board; Colorado Water Protective and Development Association; Randa Davis-Tice; District 67 Irrigating Canals Association and its members the Amity Mutual Irrigation Company, the Fort Bent Canal and Irrigation Company, Keesee Ditch, Buffalo Mutual Irrigation Company, X Y and Graham Canals, Manval Canal and Irrigation Company, the Hyde Mutual Ditch Company; the Fort Lyon Canal Company; Holbrook Mutual Irrigation Company; Andrew Kern Drainage Ditch; Lake Henry Reservoir Company; Lake Meredith Reservoir Company; Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District; Lower Arkansas Water Management Association; Robert C. Lubbers Revocable Trust; Robert C. Lubbers, Trustee; Board of County Commissioners of the County of Otero; Public Service Company of Colorado d/b/a Xcel Energy; Board of Water Works of Pueblo; Pueblo West Metropolitan District; Pueblo, a municipal corporation; Carl M. Shinn; Mary Jane Shinn; Wendy S. Shinn; Harold D. (Hal) Simpson, Colorado State Engineer; Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District; St. Charles Mesa Water District; Henry Earl Tice; United States of America; Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District; Valley Water Protection Association, LLC; Steve J. Witte, Division No. 2 Engineer; David Findley; David E. Gardner; Susan L. Gardner; J-S Farms, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Heath R. Perdue; Robyn Y. Perdue; Allen Van Whye; and Kathleen Van Whye.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 12, 2005.
As Modified on Denial of Rehearing October 11, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Harvey W. Curtis & Associates, Harvey W. Curtis, David L. Kueter, Patricia A. Madsen, Sheela S. Stack, Englewood, Dietze and Davis, P.C., Star L. Waring, Karl F. Kumli, III, Boulder, for Applicants/Appellants.
Burns, Figa & Will, P.C., Stephen H. Leonhardt, Scott A. Clark, Alix L. Joseph, Englewood, for Objector/Appellee Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
Mark A. McDonnell, Las Animas, for Objectors/Appellees Bent County Board of County Commissioners and Bent Conservation District.
Trout, Raley, Montaño, Witwer & Freeman, P.C., Peter D. Nichols, Lisa M. Thompson, Robert V. Trout, Denver, Mendenhall & Malouf, R.L.L.P., H. Barton Mendenhall, Rocky Ford, for Objector/Appellee Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District.
Lefferdink Law Office, John S. Lefferdink, Lamar, for Objector/Appellee Fort Lyon Canal Company.
Carlson, Hammond & Paddock, LLC, William A. Paddock, Mary Mead Hammond, Beth Ann J. Parsons, Denver, for Objectors/Appellees Board of Water Works, Pueblo, Colorado, Colorado Springs Utilities, Lake Henry Reservoir Company, Lake Meredith Reservoir Company, Colorado Canal Company.
Shinn, Steerman & Shinn, Donald L. Steerman, Lamar, for Objectors/Appellees District 67 Irrigating Canals Association, Amity Mutual Irrigation Company, Carl M. Shinn, Mary Jane Shinn and Wendy S. Shinn.
John W. Suthers, Attorney General, Alexandra L. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, Natural Resources and Environment Section, Denver, for Objector/Appellee Colorado Water Conservation Board and State and Division Engineers.
Duncan, Ostrander & Dingess, P.C., John M. Dingess, Austin Hamre, T. Daniel Platt, Denver, for Amicus Curiae City of Aurora, acting by and through its Utility Enterprise.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.
Justice HOBBS delivered the Opinion of the Court.
Applicants/Appellees Independent Shareholders Group, LLC and others (collectively, "ISG") appeal the water court's dismissal of their application for a change of water rights. ISG's change application pertains to Fort Lyon Canal Company water shares. This appeal raises the same primary legal question we address in the companion case, High Plains A & M, LLC v. Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District...
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