New Mexico Supreme Court· 6/15/1989

Schlieter v. Carlos

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775 P.2d 709
108 N.M. 507

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concluding 7 that an appellate court “should exercise its discretion to decide the certified questions only with a full record before it, so that any decision on the constitutionality of [a statute] would not be based upon anecdotal and speculative argument”
“It is an enduring principle of constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions unless required to do so.”
\It is an enduring principle of constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions unless required to do so.\
“It is an enduring principle of constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions unless required to do so.”
“It is an enduring principle of 6 constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions 7 unless required to do so.”
if “questions certified to us ... are not accompanied by sufficient nonhypothetical, evidentiary facts to allow us to adequately determine” answers, court might decline to answer

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Judges: Per Curiam

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