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...
by Slate Stern | Jan 13, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
When police witness a car accident, as opposed to driving to the scene in response to a 911 call, they can usually tell whether to suspect that one of the drivers involved is drunk before they get close enough to see whether either of the drivers smells like alcohol...
by Slate Stern | Jan 6, 2026 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Pedestrian Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Trains are part of the mythos of the Western United States. Back East, people travel by car or by plane to ride Old Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World in Florida, but here in New Mexico, we have the real thing. A century before the Eagles sang of traveling on a...
