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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Warner v. Calvert & NM Mediation Procedures Act

The New Mexico Court of Appeals has recently issued the first reported decision applying the New Mexico Mediation Procedures Act,  NMSA §§ 44-7B-1 et seq.Warner v. Calvert, et al., 2011-NMCA-028, cert. not applied for.  The Court concluded that a non-party participant to a mediation could be admitted as an expert in a subsequent trail, after mediation fell through, although the non-party participant's valuation report could not be admitted .

Friday, May 6, 2011

The Modern Method of Overturning Precedent

In the May 2011 issue of the ABA Journal, Richard Brust comments on the U.S. Supreme Court's emergent "stealth" method of overturning precedent.