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...
by Slate Stern | Jan 27, 2026 | Pedestrian Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
When researchers and social media loudmouths evaluate the quality of life in a given city, one of the factors that almost always counts in a city’s favor is access to public transportation. In many American cities, especially in the sprawling West, you are stuck at...
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...
