A conservative think tank has been fighting a donor disclosure rule in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a soda tax ballot measure brought millions of dollars into city politics.
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Businesses like restaurants and hair salons say New Mexico’s shutdown orders amount to a “taking” under the U.S. Constitution — one they should be reimbursed for.
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The Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico have reached multimillion-dollar settlements with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three Western states being fouled with a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, officials confirmed Wednesday.
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Crews have been dynamiting remote and rugged mountainsides in the southeast corner of Arizona, reshaping the landscape in an effort to build more border wall before President Trump’s term ends in January. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible.
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The U.S. Supreme Court was nearly unanimous Monday in clearing New Mexico over the evaporation of precious Pecos River water on its watch when the hurricane-hit Texas needed storage help.
Read moreThe New Mexico health department’s emergency orders temporarily restricting business operations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are enforceable under the civil penalty provision of the Public Health Emergency Response Act, the state’s Supreme Court ruled.
Read moreThe New Mexico Supreme Court retracted a ruling that abolished a spousal communications privilege in finding that the prohibition against witnesses testifying in court about what their husband or wife told them in private conversations must be reinstated. The rule should be the “subject of comprehensive and robust public discussion,” the court found.
Read moreThe Republican Party of New Mexico is seeking an injunction to require ballot drop boxes to comply with secure-container security requirements and be “continuously, directly monitored by at least two bipartisan election officials during polling hours.”
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Fighting to revive an excessive-force suit, an attorney argued Wednesday before the Supreme Court that the police shooting of a woman in the back amounted to a seizure.
Read moreA federal court in New Mexico ruled against two cattlemen’s associations that wanted to overturn the designation of a critical habitat for the endangered New Mexico jumping meadow mouse. The mouse is also known as the “kangaroo mouse” because of its looks and the fact that it can leap more than two feet into the air.
Read moreThe conservation group Wildearth Guardians sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday, claiming the agency approved the killing of predators and numerous wildlife species in New Mexico using decades-old science and without environmental review.
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Kicking off its new term, the Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over Texas and New Mexico’s agreement to share water from the Pecos River and whether the latter state is on the hook for water that evaporated before making it across state lines.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed New Mexico’s claims that Google used its free educational software offered through public schools to spy on children and used that data for advertising purposes. Google satisfied its obligations for obtaining parental consent through the schools, which obtained parents’ consent for in-school internet services.
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Two New Mexico police officers asked the 10th Circuit on Wednesday to grant them qualified immunity from a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend who worked for the same police department.
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The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the governor and secretary of the Department of Health have the authority to close down indoor dining at restaurants during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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New Mexico is entitled to fine business owners who fail to comply with Covid-19 public health orders to close businesses during the pandemic, the state’s highest court ruled from the bench Tuesday.
Read moreA former jail worker sued Bernalillo County, N.M., and its detention center in Superior Court, claiming she was fired the day after she reported to the deputy chief of the jail that she heard two other officers bragging about choking an inmate to death, an event she saw on surveillance video.
Read moreThe New Mexico attorney general sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf in federal court, claiming its policy of arresting people attending New Mexico courthouses on official business violates the federal and state constitutions and rights of access to the courts.
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New Mexico has sued the New Mexico Civil Guard and 14 of its members in state court, claiming the militia group helped incite a shooting at a peaceful protest in June.
Read moreCowboys for Trump sued New Mexico in federal court, claiming it need not disclose the names of its members and contributors.
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