Las Cruces, New Mexico personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of an accident.


Based on the parties' briefing and the record as a whole, the Court finds the following material facts to be undisputed for purposes... More...    $0 (02-04-2020 - NM)

Las Cruces, New Mexico personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories, under 42 U.S.C. 1983.... More...    $0 (04-05-2022 - NM)

Albuquerque, New Mexico personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.... More...    $0 (08-30-2022 - NM)

Albuquerque, New Mexico pro se Plaintiff, filled with suit against Defendant, without the assistance of a lawyer.


Plaintiff asserted claims against Defendant State of Colorado pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), the Violence Against Women Act ("VAWA"), the "Civil Rights Act," and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking $25 million in damages. Plaintiff, who is blind and "sick ... More...    $0 (07-18-2022 - NM)

Albuquerque, New Mexico civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on negligence theories.

THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the State of New Mexico, Children Youth & Families Department's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint, filed July 17, 2020 (Doc. 21)("MTD"). The Court held a hearing on October 6, 2020. See Clerks’ Minutes, at 1, filed Octob... More...    $0 (02-04-2021 - NM)

Las Cruces, New Mexico civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on a civil rights act (42 U.S.C. 1983) constitutional violation theory claiming that they were retaliated against objecting to targeting to make their traffic ticket quota by stopping Black people. They also claimed that they were discriminated against, harassed and put in danger and subjected to a hostile work... More...    $1400000 (07-04-2021 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Laarua Aubert sued Kristen Coultas-Kay, Kristen Coultas-Kay, Karen Montoya, Karen Montoya, and Central Katharine Winograd, Craig Vanderploeg, and New Mexico Community College on a right rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.... More...    $0 (11-19-2019 - NM)

Las Cruces, NM - Octavia Ward, Sandra Todd and Dennis Hargrove sued the City of Hobbs, Troy D. Brackeen, Zakariah T. Dale and Ruben Gastelum on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.c. 1983.
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On November 2, 1988, A.W. (Victim 1), who was 13 years old, went to her
15 home after school where an unknown man wearing a ski mask was lying in wait,
16 armed with a knife. The man vaginally penetrated Victim 1, and then forced her into
17 the bathroom. After securing the bathroom door so Victim 1 could not escape, the
18 unknown man fled. Victim 1 was taken to the hospital, whe... More...    $0 (06-28-2018 - NM)

Defendant Wilbur M. Stejskal (Defendant) appeals an amended judgment
4 and sentence entered two years after the entry of his original judgment and sentence.
5 By changing the word “concurrent” to the word “consecutive,” the amended judgment
6 has the practical effect of increasing Defendant’s term of incarceration from nine
7 years to ten years. On appeal, Defendant asserts that, ... More...    $0 (05-27-2018 - NM)

The State charged Defendant with an open count of first-degree murder, a
5 “capital felony,” see NMSA 1978, § 30-2-1(A) (1994), and with one count each of
6 first-degree kidnapping, robbery, and conspiracy to commit robbery. The charging
7 document specifically alleged two aggravating circumstances related to the
8 first-degree murder charge: (1) Defendant committed the murder wi... More...    $0 (03-17-2018 - NM)

Fossil fuels are the decomposed remains of pre-historic flora (coal) and fauna (oil
and gas). They have driven the world’s economy (particularly that of the United States)
for over a century. Discovering marketable deposits, extracting them from the ground,
refining them, and delivering them to consumers in useful form is big business, on one
hand fraught with risk and on the other... More...    $0 (01-10-2018 - NM)

Defendant’s convictions stem from events that occurred the afternoon of May
16 3, 2013, when Defendant was looking after J.C. (Child), a nine-year-old boy, and
17 Child’s twelve-year-old sister because Child’s mother was hospitalized. Defendant
18 lived with Child’s grandmother. According to Child, Defendant showed Child “ugly”
19 movies that showed photographs of women “showing th... More...    $0 (01-09-2018 - NM)

Bloomfield Police Sergeant George Rascon pulled over Defendant Jennifer
8 Martinez for failing to stop at a stop sign and, as a result, the police obtained evidence
9 that led to Defendant’s arrest and conviction for driving while intoxicated. In a
10 motion to suppress evidence, Defendant argued that the video from the officer’s on
11 board camera, or “dash-cam,” demonstrated tha... More...    $0 (01-07-2018 - NM)

{1} This case concerns the inventory search exception to the warrant requirement.
4 The Court of Appeals concluded that the inventory search that occurred in this case
5 was invalid because Defendant Wesley Davis did not possess the backpack searched
6 at the time of arrest as the backpack was not “on his person or in his physical
7 possession . . . .” State v. Davis, 2016-NMCA-073... More...    $0 (11-09-2017 - NM)

On August 30, 2011, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Defendant’s father drove
10 his truck past Vangie Cordova’s house, where she lived with her grandsons, Matthew
11 Cordova and Daniel Cordova, with Defendant in the passenger seat. The truck passed
12 the house at least once, went around the block, and came back again, very slowly,
13 with the windows partially rolled down. Matthew Cor... More...    $0 (11-03-2017 - NM)

A New Mexico statute makes it illegal to “willfully interfere with the
educational process” at a public school. N.M. STAT. ANN. § 30-20-13(D). In
2009, an Albuquerque Police Officer assigned to a middle school as a School
Resource Officer (“SRO”) relied on that statute to arrest a thirteen-year-old for
skipping class. The main question before us is whether qualified immunity
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In this pay discrimination case, brought under the Equal Pay Act (EPA), 29 U.S.C.
§ 206(d), Cynthia A. Casalina appeals from a district court order that entered summary
judgment in favor of the Secretary of Energy. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1291 and affirm.
2
BACKGROUND
Because the parties are familiar with the factual contours of Casalina’s
employment,... More...    $0 (09-19-2017 - NM)

In this interlocutory appeal, Defendant-Appellant Chase Thouvenell contends
that the district court erred in denying him qualified immunity from a 42 U.S.C.
§ 1983 claim asserted by the personal representative of the estate of Michael Malone
(“Malone”), alleging that Deputy Thouvenell violated the Fourth Amendment when
he shot and killed Malone while trying to arrest him. We conclu... More...    $0 (09-08-2017 - NM)

Albuquerque, NM - Albuquerque Man Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Update Sex Offender Registration

Kevin Scott Gordon, 59, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to 21 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release including a mandatory year in a residential reentry program for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Gordon will be required to ... More...    $0 (06-10-2017 - NM)