Substantive Pleadings in the NM Supreme Court Constitutional Stream Access Litigation

Brief in Opposition to Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, January 24, 2023

Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, October 28, 2022

New Mexico Supreme Court Opinion, September 01, 2022

New Mexico Supreme Court ORDER Granting Writ of Prohibitory Mandamus, March 02, 2022

Petitioners’ Reply Brief, January 27, 2022 (this is the best overall summary of the case. It is short and readable.)

Game Commission Answer Brief, January 19, 2022

Intervenors-Respondents’ (Privatizers) Answer Brief, January 19, 2022

Petitioners’ Brief-in-Chief December, 20 2021

ORDER of the NM Supreme Court accepting all briefs, adding the privatizers as Respondents, and removing the Governor as a Respondent, June 22, 2020

Consolidated REPLY BRIEF by the Petitioners, including the arguments supporting the public’s state constitutional rights of access to New Mexico’s rivers and streams, April 27, 2020

RESPONSE by Governor Lujan Grisham asking to be removed as a Respondent, April 20, 2020

RESPONSE by the successful stream privatizers and many others asking to join the litigation as Respondents, April 1, 2020

PETITION to the NM Supreme Court to direct the Governor and the Game Commission to respect and protect the public’s constitutional rights of stream access, March 13, 2020

Amicus Briefs in Support of Mandamus

Udall/Heinrich amici brief May 5, 2020

NM Wild, LULAC, Hispano Roundtable, Hispanics Enjoying the Outdoors, Nuestra Tierra Amici Brief April 27, 2020

The Privatization Law and the Game Commission Implementing Rule

New Mexico State Game Commission passes Rule that allows privatization of segments of public rivers running through private land Jan. 22 2018

2015 law as passed July 1, 2015