Mealey's (December 7, 2021, 8:23 AM EST) -- SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico federal magistrate judge on Nov. 12 recommended that a federal judge not certify to the New Mexico Supreme Court a question about whether the use of a water right for a mining operation should be considered in a river basin adjudication because the magistrate judge said a state appeals court answered the question in a Sept. 17 decision....