New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe

New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 19, 1983 Decided June 13, 1983
Full case name	New Mexico, et al. v. Mescalero Apache Tribe
Citations	462 U.S. 324 (more) 103 S. Ct. 2378; 76 L. Ed. 2d 611; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 57
Case history
Prior	Mescalero Apache Tribe v. State of New Mexico, 630 F.2d 724 (10th Cir. 1980)
Holding
The application of New Mexico's laws to on-reservation hunting and fishing by nonmembers of the Tribe is preempted by the operation of federal law.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	Marshall, joined by unanimous

New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe, 462 U.S. 324 (1983), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the application of New Mexico's laws to on-reservation hunting and fishing by nonmembers of the Tribe is preempted by the operation of federal law.^[1]