Slate’s Law Blog

After you have sustained an injury, it can be difficult to understand whether your injury makes you eligible to file a personal injury claim and what you need to do in order to file a lawsuit. Given that personal injury law is such a broad area of the law, you may be...

The summer heat is giving way to cool air and colorful autumn leaves. In New Mexico, this means that ski season will soon be here, as snowfall will soon extend beyond the mountain peaks to the state’s most scenic ski resorts. Skiing is an excellent form of physical...

More car accidents occur between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day than at any other time of year. Furthermore, the hazards of driving on icy roads in the winter are so well known that even the most hubristic drivers know to use caution. While driving on Santa Fe’s icy...

If Florida and New Mexico had a contest to see where nature unleashed its fury in more frightening wins, New Mexico just might pull off an underdog victory. New Mexico has more lightning strikes per capita than any other state, including Florida. We do not have...

If you get injured in a car accident in New Mexico, you can collect damages from the at-fault driver or another party legally responsible for the accident. To do this, you must show that the at-fault driver’s negligence caused the accident. A court might find the...

When news websites report on business contracts, they tend to report on the most eye-catching and aspirational parts.  How much money is changing hands?  When does the project begin and how awesome will it be?  What other business deals have the parties...

The heat this summer was brutal, and next summer probably is not going to be any cooler. Do not try cooling off by going for a swim in one of New Mexico’s beautiful lakes because you might get a brain-eating amoeba. Even when your favorite fruits and vegetables do not...

Some intensely painful injuries do not look very impressive; they do not leave any visible external marks such as bruises or cuts, and they may not even yield any abnormal findings on diagnostic images such as X-rays or ultrasounds. For example, a whiplash injury is a...

The residents of New Mexico, of all people, are acutely aware that some people hold some far-fetched ideas about science. If you happen to stop at a gas station near a major highway exit in Santa Fe, you will find cars with license plates from Colorado, Utah, and...

The laws of physics may not apply in cartoons, but the Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons give you an idea of how fast the traffic moves on New Mexico’s highways and on how few sidewalks there are in New Mexico. Meanwhile, no one ever decided to stay indoors in...