NEW MEXICO v. TRUJILLO

No. 15-2047.

813 F.3d 1308 (2016)

State of NEW MEXICO, ex rel. State Engineer, Plaintiff-Appellee, Pueblo de San Ildefonso; Pueblo de Nambé; Pueblo de Pojoaque; Pueblo de Tesuque, Intervenors Plaintiffs-Appellees, and United States of America, Intervenor Plaintiff, v. Elisa M. TRUJILLO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 19, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorenzo E. Atencio , Familia Legal Services, Espanola, NM ( Stephen M. Mares , Stephen Mares Firm, Santa Fe, NM, with him on the briefs), appearing for Appellant.

Arianne Singer , Deputy General Counsel ( Gregory C. Ridgley , General Counsel, and Edward Charles Bagley , Special Assistant Attorney General, with her on the briefs), New Mexico State Engineering Office, Legal Division, Santa Fe, NM, appearing for Appellee.

Alice E. Walker , McElroy, Meyer, Walker & Condon, P.C., Boulder, CO, ( Scott B. McElroy , McElroy, Meyer, Walker & Condon, P.C., Boulder, CO; Peter C. Chestnut and Ann B. Rodgers , Chestnut Law Offices, P.A., Albuquerque, NM; Maria O'Brien and Sarah M. Stevenson , Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., Albuquerque, NM; and Majel Russell , Elk River Law Office, Billings, MT, with her on the brief), appearing for Intervenors Appellees.

Before HOLMES, MATHESON, and MORITZ, Circuit Judges.


This appeal arises out of a long-running general stream adjudication, a lawsuit that determines parties' rights to use a particular water source. The water source here is the Nambé-Pojoaque-Tesuque Basin ("Basin"), a stream system emanating from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

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