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Cowboys for Trump sued New Mexico in federal court, claiming it need not disclose the names of its members and contributors.
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Fight Over New Mexico Nuke Waste Plan Lands in DC Circuit
Opponents of a plan to ship highly radioactive nuclear waste from power plants across the U.S. to a site in rural New Mexico elevated their fight Thursday with a lawsuit against the federal regulators considering the plan.
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New Mexico High Court Denies Bid to Release Prisoners During Pandemic
The New Mexico Supreme Court denied a petition Monday seeking to release a significant percentage of prisoners from New Mexico’s prisons and jails due to the danger of a coronavirus outbreak inside the state’s prisons and jails.
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States Sue EPA Over Rollback of Clean Water Rules
Seventeen states and two major cities sued the Trump administration Friday over a new rule that eliminates anti-pollution safeguards for a large portion of waterways in the United States.
Read moreDuress Instruction
The Supreme Court of New Mexico reinstated a woman’s convictions for hitting her ex-boyfriend with a car while trying to get away from him, finding she was not entitled to a duress instruction because she testified she had hit the man accidentally. Had she admitted to intentionally committing a criminal act, she would have been entitled to such an instruction.
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New Mexico High Court Rejects Petition for Mail-In-Only Primary Election
The New Mexico Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an emergency petition that would have shifted the state’s primary election to happening mostly through the mail.
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Fossil of Carnivorous Dinosaur Reveals Evolutionary Clues
A mysterious new species of small to medium-sized, feathered, carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous Period has been recently discovered in New Mexico.
Read moreA Bad Idea
A mother sued Las Cruces, N.M., its Police Department and school resource Officer Francisco Estrada, claiming Estrada shot his pistol at a target on the wall of his office, knowing the principal’s office was on the other side, and the bullet missed her son’s ear by inches, terrifying him and costing him his hearing in that ear.
Read moreFishing Holes
The director of New Mexico’s Game and Fish Department sued the State Game Commission, for clarification on whether private landowners may exclude the public from streams flowing through their property, in Santa Fe state court.
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Accent Mark in Official Santa Fe Seal in Wrong Spot
An accent mark of the official seal of the capital city of the nation’s most Hispanic state is in the wrong spot.
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Feds Eye Tribal Sites in New Mexico for Oil & Gas Drilling
The Bureau of Land Management has released alternative plans for oil and gas drilling across a stretch of northern New Mexico that encompasses tribal cultural landmarks.
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New Mexico Sues Google Over Collection of Kids’ Personal Data
New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google in federal court Thursday, claiming the tech giant is illegally collecting the personal information of children under the age of 13 through the company’s Google Education service that has been adopted by schools across the country.
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Nonprofit Loses Beef Over City’s Campaign-Disclosure Rule
A federal judge in New Mexico has ruled that a Santa Fe ordinance requiring disclosure of campaign spending over $250 on a ballot issue passes constitutional muster.
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Pecos River Fight Faces Supreme Court Test
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments on the management of the Pecos River in the aftermath of a 2014 tropical storm.
Read moreBiden and Sanders Neck-and-Neck Among New Mexico Voters
A new poll from Emerson College finds Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont barely leading former Vice President Joe Biden among New Mexico Democratic presidential primary voters.
Read moreTerm Limits
Legislation intended to standardize election dates for certain county offices and balance the number of county officers on the ballot each year is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of New Mexico ruled, finding that it impermissibly extends the terms for certain judges, district attorneys and other officials.
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Justices Take Up New Mexico Driver’s Excessive Force Case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear the case of an Albuquerque woman shot by two New Mexico State Police officers who say they opened fired because she was driving directly toward them at high speed.
Read morePolitical Money
The conservative Rio Grande Foundation sued New Mexico in federal court, claiming its Senate Bill 3 this year unconstitutionally requires “issue advocacy” groups “to register, disclose their donors, and place sponsorship disclaimers on their materials.”
Read moreNew Mexico Man Gets Life for Killing Family as Teen
A man convicted of fatally shooting his parents and three siblings in New Mexico as a 15-year-old was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in a case that has tested the limits of mental treatment for juvenile offenders.
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