Regents of the University of New Mexico v. New Mexico Federation of Teachers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting absence in New Mexico of state-sponsored system of recording legislative history, with result that courts in this state engage in statutory construction rather than resorting to legislative history
• “We will construe the entire statute as a whole so that all the provisions will be considered in relation to one another.”
• “If the testimony of actual legislators is not recognized as competent, then statements from citizens who drafted early versions of legislation are even less competent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).