New Mexico COA Affirms Enforcement of Forum Selection Clause Selecting Navajo Courts

Here is the unpublished opinion in Anchorbilt Inc. v. Arviso Construction Company Inc.:

New Mexico COA Declines Jurisdiction over Firing of Santa Ana Pueblo Tribal Police Officers

Here is the unpublished order in Trujillo v. Foster:

New Mexico COA Affirms Order Requiring Polluter to Clean Up Reservation Dumping

Here is the opinion in New Mexico Environment Department Resource Protection Office v. HRV Hotel Partners LLC (N.M. Ct. App.):

New Mexico COA Holds Tribal Police Not Governed by State Human Rights Law

Here is the opinion in South v. Lujan:

New Mexico COA Dismisses Effort to Force School District Consultation with Navajo Nation over Reopening of Schools During Pandemic

Here is the order in National Education Association of New Mexico v. Central Consolidated School District (N.M. Ct. App.):

New Mexico COA Holds Navajo Nation Member Who Rents is Exempt from State Income Tax

Here are the materials in Skeet v. New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department:

Department Opening Brief

Answer Brief

Reply

Opinion

A wolf protesting taxes I guess.

New Mexico COA Issues Tribal Immunity Opinion

Here is the opinion in Sipp v. Buffalo Thunder Inc.:

New Mexico COA Affirms Dismissal of Employment Suit against Sandia Pueblo Employees

Here is the unpublished opinion in Haynes v. Lujan:

July 22, 2021- Onawa Haynes v. Isaac Lujan, No. A-1-CA-38014

New Mexico COA Certifies Tribal Gaming/Immunity Cases to New Mexico SCT

Here is the order in Sipp v. Buffalo Thunder Inc.:

36924 and 38636 Certification Order (FINAL)

The question certified:

[W]hether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2721 (2018), permits tribes and states to contract in Tribal-State Class III Gaming Compacts to shift jurisdiction over certain matters to state courts.

New Mexico COA Adopts Federal Test of “Indian” Status for Purposes of Criminal Jurisdiction

Here is the opinion in State v. Salazar:

state-v-salazar.pdf