Horace BOUNDS, Jr., Plaintiff-Petitioner,
v.
STATE of New Mexico, ex rel. John R. D'ANTONIO, Jr., New Mexico State Engineer, Defendant-Respondent.
New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau, Intervenor-Petitioner,
v.
State of New Mexico, And John R. D'Antonio, Jr., New Mexico State Engineer, Defendants-Respondents.
Supreme Court of New Mexico.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 25, 2013.
July 25, 2013.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Law Office of Beverly Singleman, Beverly J. Singleman , Mesilla Park, NM, Miller Stratvert, P.A., Joshua L. Smith , Las Cruces, NM, for Petitioner Horace Bounds.
Peifer, Hanson & Mullins, P.A., Tiffany Elaine Dowell , Albuquerque, NM, Law Offices of Jesse J. Richardson, Jr., Jesse J. Richardson, Jr. , Blacksburg, VA, for Amicus Curiae Water Systems Council.
Law & Resource Planning Associates, P.C., Charles Thomas DuMars , Stephen Curtice , Albuquerque, NM, for Amici Curiae 4 Daughters Land & Cattle Company, Great Western Ranch, LLC, Sanders Land & Cattle, Inc.
Supreme Court of New Mexico.
OPINION
BOSSON, Justice.
{1} Horace Bounds is a rancher and farmer in the Mimbres basin in southwestern New Mexico, a fully appropriated and adjudicated basin. Bounds, joined by the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau (collectively Petitioners), brought a facial constitutional challenge against the New Mexico Domestic Well Statute (DWS), NMSA 1978, Section 72-12-1.1 (2003), which requires the State...
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