by Slate Stern | Mar 10, 2026 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog, Slip-and-Fall Accidents and Premises Liability
In the first week of January 2026, a young boy was celebrating his birthday with his family at the Ski Apache resort in New Mexico. News sources, which did not indicate the child’s name or age, reported that Ski Apache staff responded to an accident at the resort and...
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 17, 2026 | Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Not only do the laws vary from one state to another, but they also vary from one year to another. If you got injured in an accident in New Mexico, then the courts of New Mexico have jurisdiction to rule on any lawsuits arising from the accident, and they determine the...
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 | Feb 3, 2026 | Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog, Slip-and-Fall Accidents and Premises Liability
If you are looking at a map of the United States as you daydream about places to retire, New Mexico looks like it is part of the Sun Belt, but once you are close enough to New Mexico to feel the chill in the air, you will find out that many parts of the Land of...
