United States Tenth Circuit

Under Section 7 of the Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916, 43 U.S.C. Section 291 et seq., geothermal resources are a "mineral" resource within the reservation of patents for public land.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2002
• Published 01/22/2002

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen E. Hosford, of Martin, Lutz, Roggow, Hosford & Eubanks, P.C., Las Cruces, NM, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tamara N. Rountree, Assistant United States Attorney (Norman C. Bay, United States Attorney, and John W. Zavitz, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Albuquerque, NM, for the appellees.