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The New Mexico Supreme Court has issued an opinion cautioning against the use of the term “and/or” in jury instructions, writing that “[t]he term and/or has proved singularly unsuited to formulating clear and effective jury instructions, to the degree that our trial courts would be well-served to avoid its use in jury instructions altogether.” In its opinion in State v. Taylor, S-1-SC-38818…
A lawsuit filed in New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe accuses CYFD and the Bair Foundation of failing to protect a five-year-old boy from physical and sexual abuse in a treatment foster care home. The victim, referred to only as “A.T.,” is alleged to have suffered this abuse at the hands of two treatment foster care parents…
In a per curiam ruling on March 4, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Donald Trump from the Colorado primary ballot on the basis of his engagement in insurrection under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The decision to reverse – while hardly unexpected…
