Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. State Engineer v. Commissioner of Public Lands
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided September 24, 2008No. 27,654PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WECHSLER, Judge.
{1} This appeal arises from a district court subfile proceeding in the course of a general adjudication of water rights in the San Juan River stream system. At issue is the applicability of the federal reserved water rights doctrine to state lands that the federal government granted and conveyed to New Mexico in trust for the purpose of supporting New Mexican schools. As the manager and acting trustee for New Mexico’s trust lands, the Commissioner of Public Lands for the State of New Mexico (the Commissioner) asserted a claim in the underlying adjudication for federal…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Winters v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Arizona v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Self v. United Parcel Service, Inc.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1998
- California v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Cappaert v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by13 opinions
- State Ex Rel. King v. LyonsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2011
- State Ex Rel. State Engineer v. Com'r of Public LandsNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2008
- Alcantar v. SanchezNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2011
- State ex rel. State Engineer v. San Juan Agricultural Water Users Ass'New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2018
- Waterfall Community Water Users Ass'n v. New Mexico State EngineerNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2009
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