SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Supreme Court decided Texas v. New Mexico on Monday, ruling in New Mexico’s favor in an interstate water dispute over the Pecos River. Texas filed the case directly in the Supreme Court, invoking the court’s original jurisdiction in cases where one state sues another … just as it did on Dec.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2023

On Friday, New Mexico District Judge Fred T. The case was in the New Mexico County of Lea Fifth Judicial District Court. Soelen concluded that the congressional map does not violate Article II, Section 18 of the New Mexico Constitution. Justiciability refers to the ability of a court to hear an issue.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

“New Mexico gets water victory over Texas at U.S. Supreme Court”: Phill Casaus of The Santa Fe New Mexican has this report. Susan Montoya Bryan of The Associated Press reports that “ US Supreme Court sides with New Mexico in Pecos River fight.” ” Ellen M.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

” You can access yesterday’s opinion of the Supreme Court of New Mexico at this link.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 19, 2022

New Mexico District Court Judge Elaine Lujan has outlawed the New Mexico Civil Guard (NMCG), a militia group blamed for sparking violence at a 2020 anti-statue demonstration in the state where a protester was shot, reports Andrew Hay for Reuters.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

So far we’ve seen Perkins Coie and Williams & Connolly take their stands in court, Rachel Cohen stake her employment at Skadden , and the American Constitution Society call on law school deans to take a public stand for the rule of law. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. Why the hell not?

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Improvements to New Mexico’s pretrial practices are working to promote community safety and honor the constitutional principles of the American justice system, reports the Los Alamos Daily Post.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

“Trial starts in Rio Grande Supreme Court water lawsuit between New Mexico and Texas”: Danielle Prokop of El Paso Matters recently had this report.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of New Mexico , ending the latest chapter in a decades-old water dispute involving the Pecos River. The conflict involves how water is apportioned between New Mexico and Texas under an interstate compact first approved by Congress in the mid-twentieth century.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Facebook claims that the data that would confirm the identity of page administrators and members of the New Mexico Civil Guard no longer exist because it deleted them after it banned the organization as part of an August 2020 content moderation sweep.

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision on Monday rejecting an environmental challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The ruling comes just days after a district court in Texas found that the entire DACA program was unlawful.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The South Dakota Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that a state constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana is unconstitutional. In February, the circuit court dismissed the election contest. On appeal, the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 29, 2024

“US Efforts to Store Nuclear Waste Poised for High Court Review; Legal battle intensifies over where to store spent fuel; Fifth Circuit vacates licenses for Texas, New Mexico sites”: Daniel Moore of Bloomberg Law has this report discussing an unpublished decision that the U.S.

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CourtTechBulletin

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In every state except for New Mexico, polygraph results are generally inadmissible absent a stipulation by the parties that they should be admitted. But, according to a concurring justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, there is a decades-old opinion.

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JULY 16, 2021

“Governor fills Supreme Court vacancy”: The Office of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham today issued a news release that begins, “Gov. Zamora of the New Mexico Court of Appeals to the state Supreme Court, closing the vacancy left by the Honorable Justice Barbara J.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

A classic rule of character evidence is the "mercy rule," pursuant to which evidence of a criminal defendant's bad character can only be introduced after the defendant has presented evidence of her good character. And this "door opening" procedure ended.

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CourtTechBulletin

AUGUST 5, 2021

In this month’s collection of notes we have news about an online forms creation website, punishment for abuse of social media by posting a judge's personal information, ideas for "engineering gatherings", New Mexico finishing their statewide E-filing implementation project, the new NCSC's Courthouse Retrospective report, CCJ/COSCA (..)

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

has moved to toss New Mexico's lawsuit accusing it of enabling child sexual exploitation on its instant messaging app, Snapchat, telling a New Mexico state court that the state's attorney general lodged a "sensationalist" lawsuit rife with patently false allegations.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Tenth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that Albuquerque’s panhandling ordinance violates First Amendment rights because the ordinance is not sufficiently narrow. The appellate court upheld a 2019 ruling by U.S. Pedestrians are also barred from talking to or interacting with drivers and occupants of vehicles.

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DECEMBER 19, 2020

Lujan Grisham fills Supreme Court vacancy”: New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued this news release today. “Gov.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers. We share what we found below.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2024

District Judge David Urias has enjoined the University of New Mexico from imposing a $5,400 security fee for former collegiate swimmer and activist Riley Gaines after speaking on campus. ” … Notably, the court detailed how less than 10 protesters actually showed up and demonstrated outside of the room. Stokes (D.N.M.),

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The New Mexico Supreme Court has overturned a womans 2022 murder conviction and barred a retrial because of severe and pervasive prosecutorial misconduct, exacerbated by…

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

“Supreme Court Justice Rejects Challenge to New Mexico’s Vaccine Mandate”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Five years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that pleading guilty to a crime does not prevent a defendant from arguing that the law criminalizing their conduct is unconstitutional. In Herrera v.

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Law 360

AUGUST 1, 2024

shale oil producers will have to defend claims that they conspired with OPEC to artificially inflate gas prices in New Mexico federal court after the U.S. A group of U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized at least five suits there Thursday.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the Court in Texas v. New Mexico , No. Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Justice Samuel A. Alito issued an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part. You can access the oral argument via this link.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2024

New York Supreme Court Judge Kevin Bryant invalidated Thursday the state’s laws regulating the marketing of recreational cannabis, clarifying a ruling that appeared to strike down all cannabis regulations as unconstitutionally vague. Other states that have recently legalized cannabis include New Mexico , Maryland and Missouri.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2021

.” Since the discovery, a group of Canadian lawyers has formally requested the International Criminal Court to investigate. In 2008 former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologized for the country’s former Indian residential schools policy, which was designed to “aggressively assimilate aboriginal children.”

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JUNE 21, 2024

Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in five argued cases. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court in Texas v. New Mexico , No. Justice Barrett delivered the opinion of the Court in Department of State v. Justice Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court in Smith v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2024

We previously discussed New Mexico Gov. After triggering a court fight, Grisham backed down and scaled down her order to ban concealed weapons in parks and playgrounds. Now, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has rejected her bid to lift that injunction in a key decision on appeal. District Kea W.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Share Under a historic water crisis in the desert southwest, the Navajo Nation asked for a court order requiring the federal government to determine the Nation’s water needs and to devise a plan to meet those needs. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The decision came down to how the court framed the Nation’s claims.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

The Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The state says pharmacies should "serve as a dam," stopping the flood of suspicious opioids into the communities.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A new study into the effects of proposed stricter pretrial detention changes comes as politicians in New Mexico continue to debate the state’s crime rate and a perceived “revolving door” for people who commit crime with the state’s criminal justice system, the Associated Press reports.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Thank the Supreme Court, for Now (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times). Supreme Court And Big-Time College Sports Meet For Potentially Big-Time Decision (Nina Totenberg, NPR).

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