147 ABA Journal New Mexico articles.
A legal aid office serving a heavily Navajo clientele is shutting three of its nine offices for financial reasons, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported Thursday.
DNA-People’s Legal Services…
Aug 21, 2017 4:00 PM CDT
Ninety-nine lawsuits claiming New Mexico businesses violated the Americans with Disabilities Act should be tossed, according to a recommendation by a federal magistrate judge.
Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Molzen…
Jul 13, 2017 7:00 AM CDT
Sheriff’s deputies in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, were crediting digital assistant Alexa on Monday with initiating a emergency call during a domestic assault–but it couldn’t have happened, according to a…
Jul 12, 2017 11:04 AM CDT
The Justice Department has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of abuse by the nation’s largest for-profit extradition company, according to a Colorado man who said he was recently contacted…
Jun 8, 2017 11:17 AM CDT
Jun 6, 2017 11:12 AM CDT
New Mexico’s chief public defender has been found in contempt of court and fined $5,000 for refusing to provide lawyers to represent criminal defendants in five cases because of his…
Dec 1, 2016 2:16 PM CST
A police officer who arrested an Albuquerque middle school student for repeatedly fake burping during gym class was entitled to qualified immunity, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The Denver-based…
Jul 29, 2016 8:50 AM CDT
The New Mexico Supreme Court is warning judges about the perils of social media in an opinion that nonetheless sidesteps whether the trial judge’s Facebook posts indicated bias.
The New…
Jun 23, 2016 7:00 AM CDT
The Supreme Court of New Mexico ruled Thursday that the state is free to pay flat fees to attorneys contracted as public defenders, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.…
Jun 6, 2016 6:45 AM CDT
Some employees believe a ghost is responsible for unexplained activity at the Otero County Courthouse in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Some report seeing a ghost wearing a suit from the early…
May 27, 2016 6:15 AM CDT
Ordinarily, when there’s a dispute about claimed environmental damage due to corporate operations, it’s the Environmental Protection Agency that sues to get it cleaned up.
But a lawsuit filed Monday…
May 24, 2016 1:00 PM CDT
The Facebook page of a former mayor is public record, says a New Mexico court. Now she needs to figure out how to reactivate the account, which has been shut…
May 3, 2016 10:30 AM CDT
A suspended New Mexico judge is accused in a lawsuit of secretly bugging multiple locations in the courthouse and recording hundreds of hours of private conversations.
The suit filed on…
Mar 1, 2016 8:20 AM CST
An Albuquerque, New Mexico, lawyer was acquitted in a retrial on Monday in the shooting of a homeless man who entered his office.
Jurors acquitted David “Chip” Venie after…
Feb 2, 2016 6:54 AM CST
Opening statements began today in the trial of an attorney accused of shooting a man in the leg for entering the attorney’s downtown Albuquerque office, KRQE reported Monday.
…Jan 26, 2016 3:45 PM CST
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