A supervisor was shown a slur drawn across a face on a breakroom whiteboard and shrugged it off. A federal appeals court didn’t.
TL;DR: A federal appeals court affirmed summary judgment for a retail employer on an employee’s other claims,
Sergio Pareja (New Mexico School of Law) and Sophie Rane recently published Uneven Ground: a New Mexico Case Study of Rural Estate Planning and Probate Inequity, 2026. Provided below is the Abstract:
While existing scholarship has explored the general
Inheritance law scholarship usually addresses some form of the question: “Who gets what?” But in their remarkable new article, Uneven Ground: New Mexico as a Case Study of a Growing Rural Estate Planning Crisis, Sergio Pareja and Sophie Rane ask
The Texas Supreme Court recently issued an important opinion in Boerschig v. Rio Grande Electric Cooperative with regard to implied electrical line easements and the scope thereof.
Background
In 1945, ranchers in Southwest Texas formed
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of New Mexico, seeking a ruling that federal law gives the agency exclusive authority to regulate certain event-based contracts traded on CFTC-registered exchanges.
The filing
In New Mexico Trappers Association v. Torrez, (10th Cir., June 8, 2026), the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed on justiciability grounds a challenge by trappers’ organizations to a New Mexico statute banning capturing or killing wildlife on
