BOUNDS v. STATE EX REL. D'ANTONIO

Nos. 32,713, 32,717.

306 P.3d 457 (2013)

2013-NMSC-037

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.

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.

Hennighausen & Olsen, L.L.P., Arnold J. Olsen , Alvin F. Jones , Jeff Grandjean , Roswell, NM, for Petitioner New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau.

D.L. Sanders , Martha Clark Franks , Santa Fe, NM, for Respondents.

Eugene I. Zamora , Marcos D. Martinez , Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae City of Santa Fe.

Calvert Menicucci, P.C., Sean R. Calvert , Albuquerque, NM, Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, Co. L.P.A., Donald W. Gregory , Jeremiah E. Thomas , Columbus, OH, for Amicus Curiae National Ground Water Association.

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.

Taylor & McCaleb, P.A., Jolene Lucille McCaleb , Elizabeth Newlin Taylor , Corrales, NM, for Amicus Curiae New Mexico Ground Water Association.

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.


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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