by Slate Stern | Mar 24, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
New Mexico is one of only a few places in the world where, in the span of a brief road trip, you can see both snow-capped mountains and sandy deserts. The good news is that, when the temperature reaches the triple digits in some parts of the state in the summer, there...
by Slate Stern | Mar 17, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
A common pattern in the industrial and postindustrial eras is that a new invention becomes commercially available, or else makes its debut at a public event with the promise of soon being available to consumers. The public marvels at this invention that performs a...
by Slate Stern | Mar 3, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
If you are judging based on the architectural design of shopping centers and the assortment of chain stores you find in each one, the United States is remarkably uniform. A Walmart in New Mexico is not so different from a Walmart in Florida, Massachusetts, or anywhere...
by Slate Stern | Feb 24, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Most people who file personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits do so shortly before the deadline for filing. Part of this delay is that they are spending time preparing documents to meet legal requirements so that the court will consider the lawsuit rather than...
by Slate Stern | Feb 10, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Laws are written so that they are sufficiently simple that they apply in all situations, and yet they are flexible enough to account for the variety among individual cases. For example, criminal laws have a range of sentences for people convicted of the offense. The...
by Slate Stern | Jan 20, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
If you think traffic is worse during the holiday season, it is not just your imagination. Those Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday traffic jams did not completely disappear, even though we are currently in the nondescript part of December. People take more road trips...
