The New Mexico Supreme Court acted Tuesday to halt the White Peak land swap, at least temporarily, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The court wants a response from State Land Commissioner Pat Lyons by February 15.

Yesterday, Attorney General Gary King announced his lawsuit to halt the White Peak land swap.

“We are asking the Court for a writ of mandamus and an emergency stay that prohibits further exchanges of state trust lands by the land commissioner that violate the New Mexico Constitution,” King said in a statement yesterday. Today, the emergency stay was granted.

King alleges that the land swap, which would swap public land in the White Peak area for private land, violates the Enabling Act of 1910.