Lion's Gate Water v. D'ANTONIO

OPINION

CHÁVEZ, Chief Justice.

{1} This case comes to us through a long and tortuous route, wending its way from the Office of the State Engineer to this Court over the course of more than six years. The present iteration of judicial review arose when the Sixth Judicial District Court entered an interim order on May 29, 2008, finding that Respondent Lion’s Gate Water’s notice publication “substantially complied” with the statutory requirement and ordering a trial de novo on “all matters either presented or which might have been presented to [the State Engineer] as well as new evidence developed…