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J.J';1'L. the meeting adjourns and I will take it to the printers. After that there is still time for some editing and polishing from the galley proofs. We obtained a second thirty-day exten- sion of time in which to file this brief. It is now due and will be filed by February 3rd. I This brief, as I believe you have been advised before, is in response to a memoran- dum brief which was filed by the states of Texas and New Mexico asking the United states Supreme Court for permission to file its bill of complaint, the bill of complaint of Texas and New Mexico. This is the procedure when sovereign states sue each other in the United states Supreme Court which is the only place they can sue each other under the federal constitution. A state can't just trot in and file a complaint. It has to get the court's permission first and this is done by tendering a form of complaint and filing a brief stating the reasons why the plaintiff states, in this case Texas and New Mexico, should be permitted to file it. Then the defendant, in this case Colorado, has time in which to file a brief stating why the complaint should not be filed. The ques- tion of whether or not the brief is filed is not the final determination of the case by any means unless the court finds the case should not be filed, in which event that is the end of it. Now we base our position on two grounds, we have two reasons why we feel the complaint should not be filed. One is that the united 1- states is an indispensable party, coupled with that we feel also that the Elephant Butte Irrigation District and the Middle Rio Grande conservancy District are indispensable parties to the litigation. That's one ground. The other ground is that there is available