Legal Opinion
Hatten-Gonzales v. Hyde
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 31, 2009No. 08-2009PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Entangled in the present litigation for more than twenty years, the New Mexico Human Services Department (“HSD”) seeks review of two interlocutory orders of the district court. HSD and a plaintiff class headed by Debra Hatten-Gonzales have been operating under a Modified Settlement Agreement (“MSA”) approved by the district court in 1998. Although it restrained the parties from violating the MSA, the district court has not entered a final judgment, and the case remains on its active docket.
In 2005, the parties’ then-dormant dispute once again erupted. HSD sought to end…
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