United States Tenth Circuit

43 USC 392a, known as the Hayden-O'Mahoney Amendment, does not completely repeal Section 4-I of the Reclamation Act in 1924, which regulated how water districts repaid their annual payments to reclamation funds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2001
• Published 10/25/2001

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge, PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge, and JENKINS, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kathryn E. Kovacs, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC (John W. Zavitz, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, Chris Rich, Attorney, U.S. Department of the Interior, Salt Lake City, UT, Lois Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, Peter Coppelman, Acting Assistant Attorney General, John A. Bryson and R. Lee Leininger, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, with her on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees., Herman E. Ortiz and Lee Peters, of Hubert & Hernandez, P.A., Las Cruces, NM, (James M. Speer, Jr., El Paso, TX, with them on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants.