City of Thornton v. Bijou Irr. Co.
Decision Date | 15 October 1996 |
Docket Number | No. 1,No. 2,A,No. 94SA66,2,1,94SA66 |
Citation | City of Thornton v. Bijou Irr. Co., 926 P.2d 1 (Colo. 1996) |
Parties | The CITY OF THORNTON, Applicant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. BIJOU IRRIGATION CO.; Bijou Irrigation District; Andrew Blase & Vivien Akin; Burlington Ditch, Land & Reservoir Co.; Central Colorado Water Conservancy District and its Ground Water Management Subdistrict; Cache La Poudre Water Users Assoc.; City of Arvada; City of Aurora; City of Brighton; City of Broomfield; City and County of Denver, acting by and through its Board of Water Commissioners; City of Englewood; City of Greeley; Consolidated Ditches of District; Colorado Division of Wildlife; Harold Deane; Delta Irrigation Co.; Excalibur Resources Co.; Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co.; Fort Morgan Irrigation & Reservoir Co.; Henrylyn Irrigation District; Irrigationists Assoc.; Jackson Lake Reservoir & Irrigation Co.; Jackson Ditch Co.; Larimer & Weld Irrigation Co.; Larimer & Weld Reservoir Co.; New Cache La Poudre Irrigating Co.; North Poudre Irrigation Co.; Ogilvy Irrigating & Land Co.; Paul Lind & Sons; Wanda Lee Rankin; Riverside Irrigation District; Riverside Reservoir & Land Co.; St. Vrain & Left Hand Water Conservancy District; Thompson Water Users Assoc.; Water Supply and Storage Co.; Western Sugar Co.; and Windsor Reservoir Co., Objectors-Appellees, and Alan Berryman, Division Engineer, Water Divisionppellee pursuant to C.A.R. 1(e), and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District; Keith Amen; Warren & Viola Amen; J.W. and Bessy L. Hutcheson; Dwain & Vera Yetter, Colorado Division Engineer, Water Division 1 and State Engineer (by motion to intervene); Public Service Company of Colorado; Eastman Kodak Company--Colorado Division; City of Fort Collins; and Platte River Power Authority, Objectors-Appellees/Cross-Appellants. |
Court | Colorado Supreme Court |
White & Jankowski, Michael D. White, David F. Jankowski, Scotty P. Krob, Joseph B. Dischinger, David C. Taussig, Thomas J. Davidson, Austin C. Hamre, Denver, for Applicant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee the City of Thornton.
Epperson, McClary, Zorn & McClary, Donald F. McClary, Fort Morgan, for Objectors-AppelleesBijou Irrigation Co., Bijou Irrigation District, and the Irrigationists Assoc.
Lind, Lawrence & Ottenhoff, Kim R. Lawrence, Greeley, for Objector-Appellee the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, and the Ground Water Management Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District.
Fischer, Brown, Huddleson & Gunn, P.C., William H. Brown, Ward H. Fischer, William R. Fischer, Fort Collins, for Objectors-AppelleesCache La Poudre Water Users Assoc., and the Water Supply and Storage Co.
Sommermeyer, Wick, Dow & Campbell, Timothy J. Dow, Fort Collins, for Objectors-AppelleesLarimer & Weld Irrigation Co., Larimer & Weld Reservoir Co., and Winds or Reservoir Co.
Trout & Raley, P.C., Robert V. Trout, Jennifer Russell, Denver, for Objectors-Appellees/Cross-Appellants Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Keith Amen, Warren and Viola Amen, J.W. and Bessy L. Hutcheson, and Dwain and Vera Yetter.
Gale A. Norton, Attorney General, Stephen K. ErkenBrack, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Timothy M. Tymkovich, Solicitor General, Patricia S. Bangert, Deputy Attorney General, Jennifer L. Gimbel, First Assistant Attorney General, Steven O. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Natural Resources Section, Denver, for Objectors-Appellees/Cross-Appellants Colorado Division Engineer, Water Division 1, and State Engineer.
Gorsuch Kirgis L.L.C., Brian M. Nazarenus, Denver, for Objector-Appellee/Cross-AppellantPublic Service Company of Colorado.
Vranesh and Raisch, LLC, Jerry W. Raisch, Michael D. Shimmin, Douglas A. Goulding, Thomas Morris, Boulder, for Objectors-Appellees/Cross-AppellantsEastman Kodak Company--Colorado Division, and City of Fort Collins.
Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison and Woodruff, P.C., John Wittemyer, Christopher G. Wittemyer, Boulder, for Objector-Appellee/Cross-Appellant Platte River Power Authority.
Patricia L. Wells, Michael L. Walker, Henry C. Teigen, Casey S. Funk, Mary B. Rastall, Denver, for Amicus Curiae the City and County of Denver, acting by and through its Board of Water Commissioners(also designated as an Objector-Appellee).
David C. Hallford, Glenwood Springs, for Amicus Curiae Colorado River Water Conservation District.
Anderson, Gianunzio, Dude, Pifher & Lebel, P.C., Mark T. Pifher, Colorado Springs, for Amicus Curiae Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company.
No appearance for the following Objectors-Appellees: Andrew Blase; Vivien Akin; Burlington Ditch, Land & Reservoir Co.; City of Arvada; City of Aurora; City of Brighton; City of Broomfield; City of Englewood; City of Greeley;Consolidated Ditches of DistrictNo. 2;Colorado Division of Wildlife; Harold Deane; Delta Irrigation Co.; Excalibur Resources Co.; Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co.; Fort Morgan Irrigation & Reservoir Co.; Henrylyn Irrigation District; Jackson Lake Reservoir & Irrigation Co.; Jackson Ditch Co.; New Cache La Poudre Irrigating Co.; North Poudre Irrigation Co.; Ogilvy Irrigating & Land Co.; Paul Lind & Sons; Wanda Lee Rankin; Riverside Irrigation District; Riverside Reservoir & Land Co.; St. Vrain & Left Hand Water Conservancy District; Thompson Water Users Assoc.; and Western Sugar Co.
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