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The cliché is, we’re a litigious society. Two clearly frivolous lawsuits were in the news recently. Both should remind everyone that we learn to walk about age 2. As a child, surely your parents admonished you, “Watch where you’re going.” Yet there are adults still stumbling around who either didn’t learn that toddler lesson or they’re just after a small payday. We suspect the latter. The first suit stems from an incident outside the Kimo Theater in Albuquerque where a couple was leaving a play and walking to their car. I...
ESPANOLA — Finally: a win for the good guys, when it comes to keeping government processes open to the public. Justice Miles Hanisee wrote in a Sept. 24 Court of Appeals ruling that Marcy Britton had the right to attorney fees, costs and damages, contrary to the finding of District Court Judge Shannon Bacon of Bernalillo County. Bacon had found that Britton could not seek punitive damages and could only seek actual damages. Actual damages usually must be demonstrated in a way to show loss to convince a judge to award up to $...
