State of New Mexico v. General Electric

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he State as guardian of the public trust has no possessory interest in the sand, gravel, and other minerals that make up the aquifer—a necessary requisite to maintaining a trespass action.”
• “the State as guardian of the public trust has no possessory interest in the sand, gravel, and other minerals that make up the aquifer—a necessary requisite to maintaining a trespass action”
• “We have found no judicial authority, however, which suggests the doctrine of parens patriae provides a state substantive rights beyond those provided by the public trust doctrine in a case involving the contamination of a publicly-held natural resource.”
• “[W]e view the [plaintiff’s] belated dismissal of its federal claims, only after the district court expressed skepticism over the validity of its damage calculation, as in all likelihood a manipulative tactic designed to achieve a remand to state court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).