New Mexico in the United States
Legal Materials
Internet links to New Mexico government agencies, statutes, regulations, cases, etc. are posted by FindLaw and Washlaw Web. Primary legal materials are also available from Lexis, Westlaw and Loislaw. Google Scholar has free cases back to 1950; subscription sites Versuslaw and Fastcase also have cases back to 1950. New Mexico Supreme and Appellate Court cases are published in the Pacific Reporter.
You can check the status of a pending bill through the Legislature’s online Bill Finder. For question about current legislation or legislative history, call the Legislative Council Service at 505-986-4600.
For questions about New Mexico legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loans, try calling the University of New Mexico Law Library (505-277-6236) and/or the New Mexico Supreme Court Library (505-827-4850).
Publications: The Bar Bulletin contains practice-related articles, rules orders, slip opinions, a calendar of meetings and workshops, and announcements. New Mexico does not have a real legal newspaper like the New York Law Journal or the Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly.
Business Entities: The New Mexico Secretary of State posts a database ofcorporations and LLCs. The Agency also posts a UCC filings database, as well as a list of UCC search providers.
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
For more U.S. state primary law resources, see:
- U.S. State Law: Constitutional
- U.S. State Cases
- U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
- U.S. State Law: Codes
- U.S. State Law: Statutes
- U.S. State Law: Municipal
Topics Covered by the New Mexico Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the New Mexico jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together New Mexico statutory and case law.
Topics include:
- New Mexico Statutes
- NM Cases & Case Law
- New Mexico Legal Websites
- NM State Government Info
- New Mexico Counties
- New Mexico Cities
- New Mexico Legislation
- NM Court Reporters/Depositions
- New Mexico Legal Forms
- New Mexico Courts
- NM State Bar/Legal Associations
- New Mexico Law Enforcement
- New Mexico Media Sources
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