Slate’s Law Blog
How Do New Mexico’s New Laws of 2026 Affect Your Personal Injury Case?
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...
Beware of DWI Repeat Offenders in New Mexico
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...
Slip and Fall Accidents Involving Icy Surfaces at Apartment Complexes
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...
Pedestrian Dies After Being Struck by Commuter Rail Train
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...
The Winter Holidays are Peak Season for Traffic Disasters
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...
Wrong Way DWI Accidents
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...
Train Accidents Involving Pedestrians
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...
Fall Prevention and Premises Liability
Premises liability laws in New Mexico and other states maintain that businesses have a legal responsibility to keep areas that are open to customers in a safe condition. If a customer suffers an accidental injury due to a preventable hazard, the customer has the right...
Truck Accidents on the Highway
The system of interstate highways is a major force that has shaped postwar American life. It contributed to a culture that valorizes cars and depends on them. It also made travel faster and easier than it had been in the age of rail transport; there was no more...
Work Van Strikes Car at Intersection in Albuquerque
Car accidents can happen anywhere, but it is with good reason that people feel more apprehensive at intersections than they do in areas where all the cars are going in the same direction. Yes, sideswipe accidents can happen when people try to change lanes at the wrong...