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1 Alicia Bannon, New Mexico Supreme Court Hints at a Big Constitutional Change: A Footnote in a Recent Opinion Could Signal a New Method for Analyzing State Constitutional Claims [1] (2023)

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New Mexico Supreme Court Hints at a Big

Constitutional Change


A footnote  in a recent opinion could signal a new method   for

analyzing  state constitutional claims.

By Alicia Bannon Published: October 12, 2023

New Mexico


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In legal opinions, footnotes are often where the action is: a place for caveats, dueling
barbs, and occasionally new legal principles. (There are U.S. Supreme Court cases
known more for a footnote than the main holding.) They can also be a place where
judges drop breadcrumbs for future litigants. That's what the New Mexico Supreme
Court recently did in footnote seven of Grisham  , where the court


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