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retroactivity rule in New Mexico

8 New Mexico opinions name it 2 courts 1994–2024 3 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by New Mexico courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (7)

CaseFollowedCited
Figueroa v. THI of New Mexicogreen
nmctapp · 2012 · cited in 3 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 2021–2024
2 sentences

2024See Figueroa v. THI of N.M. at Casa Arena Blanca, LLC, 2013-NMCA-077, ¶ 41 , 306 P.3d 480 (holding, where no new rule was created, that the defendant failed to overcome the presumption of retroactivity, without considering the other two factors of the retroactivity test).

2021See Figueroa v. THI of N.M. at Casa Arena Blanca, LLC, 2013-NMCA-077, ¶ 41 , 306 P.3d 480 (holding, where no new rule was created, that the defendant failed to overcome the presumption of retroactivity, without considering the other two factors of the retroactivity test).

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Edenburn v. New Mexico Department of Healthgreen
nmctapp · 2012 · cited in 2 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 2021–2021
2 sentences

2021See Beavers, 1994-NMSC-094 , ¶ 23 (“[T]he decision to be applied nonretroactively must establish a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied, or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed.”); Figueroa v. THI of N.M. at Casa Arena Blanca, LLC, 2013-NMCA-077, ¶ 41 , 306 P.3d 480 (holding that, where no new rule was created, the defendant failed to overcome the presumption of retroactivity, without considering the other two factors of the retroactivity test); Edenburn, 2013-NMCA-045, ¶ 31 (explain

2021Dep’t of Health, 2013-NMCA-045, ¶ 29 , 299 P.3d 424 .

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State v. Frawleyred
nm · 2007 · cited in 2 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 2010–2012
2 sentences

2012See State v. Frawley, 2007-NMSC-057, ¶ 30 , 143 N.M. 7 , 172 P.3d 144 (“It is a fundamental principle that we cannot rewrite or add language to a statute in order to make it constitutional.

2012See State v. Frawley, 2007-NMSC-057, ¶ 30 , 143 N.M. 7 , 172 P.3d 144 (“It is a fundamental principle that we cannot rewrite or add language to a statute in order to make it constitutional.

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In Re Gelinasgreen
nmctapp · 2020 · cited in 1 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 2021–2021
1 sentence

2021As this Court has recognized, where, as in Gelinas, the result was foreseeable as a matter of statutory interpretation of a statute’s explicit language, see 2020-NMCA-038, ¶ 5 (giving effect to the clear language of Section 7-1-25 and Rule 12-601), it will not be considered a new rule for purposes of a retroactivity analysis.

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Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxationgreen
scotus · 1993 · cited in 1 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 2010–2010
2 sentences

2010Id. at 393 , 881 P.2d at 1378 (declining to follow the federal rule); see also Harper v. Va. Dep’t of Taxation, 509 U.S. 86, 86, 90 , 113 S.Ct. 2510 , 125 L.Ed.2d 74 (1993) (establishing the retroactivity rule for federal cases).

2010Id. at 393 , 881 P.2d at 1378 (declining to follow the federal rule); see also Harper v. Va. Dep’t of Taxation, 509 U.S. 86, 86, 90 , 113 S.Ct. 2510 , 125 L.Ed.2d 74 (1993) (establishing the retroactivity rule for federal cases).

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Beavers v. Johnson Controls World Services, Inc.green
nm · 1994 · cited in 1 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 2010–2010
2 sentences

2010Id. at 393 , 881 P.2d at 1378 (declining to follow the federal rule); see also Harper v. Va. Dep’t of Taxation, 509 U.S. 86, 86, 90 , 113 S.Ct. 2510 , 125 L.Ed.2d 74 (1993) (establishing the retroactivity rule for federal cases).

2010Id. at 393 , 881 P.2d at 1378 (declining to follow the federal rule); see also Harper v. Va. Dep’t of Taxation, 509 U.S. 86, 86, 90 , 113 S.Ct. 2510 , 125 L.Ed.2d 74 (1993) (establishing the retroactivity rule for federal cases).

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Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maezgreen
nm · 1982 · cited in 1 New Mexico opinions naming this issue, 1994–1994
2 sentences

1994See, e.g., Lopez, 98 N.M. at 632 , 651 P.2d at 1276 (applying decision to parties in case “for having afforded us the opportunity to change an outmoded and unjust rule of law” and to parties in future cases “in which the damages and injuries arise after the date of the mandate in this case”).

1994See, e.g., Lopez, 98 N.M. at 632 , 651 P.2d at 1276 (applying decision to parties in case “for having afforded us the opportunity to change an outmoded and unjust rule of law” and to parties in future cases “in which the damages and injuries arise after the date of the mandate in this case”).

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in New Mexico. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (2)

CaseCitedYears
Gomez v. Chavarria green
nmctapp · 2009
2 sentences

2021See Baca, 2017-NMCA-076 , ¶ 18 (holding that where the statutory interpretations announced in a case were foreseeable and consistent with legislative intent, the first Marckstadt factor is not satisfied); Gomez v. Chavarria, 2009-NMCA-035, ¶ 14 , 146 N.M. 46 , 206 P.3d 157 (“Given what we believe is the only reasonable construction of the statutes at issue here, we hold that the [retroactivity] elements . . . are not met.”).

2021See Baca, 2017-NMCA-076 , ¶ 18 (holding that where the statutory interpretations announced in a case were foreseeable and consistent with legislative intent, the first Marckstadt factor is not satisfied); Gomez v. Chavarria, 2009-NMCA-035, ¶ 14 , 146 N.M. 46 , 206 P.3d 157 (“Given what we believe is the only reasonable construction of the statutes at issue here, we hold that the [retroactivity] elements . . . are not met.”).

12021–2021
Stein v. Alpine Sports, Inc. green
nm · 1998
1 sentence

2012Stein, 1998-NMSC-040 ,K 14.

12012–2012

Where else courts name it

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