State Ex Rel. Clark v. Johnson

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• concluding that it is within this Court’s discretion to confer standing “ ‘on the basis of the importance of the public issues involved.’ ” (quoting State ex rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick, 86 N.M. 359, 363, 524 P.2d 975, 979 (1974))
• concluding that the Legislature did not intend for the governor to be a “public agency” within the meaning of a statute where the statute specifically listed the entities that qualified as a public agency but did not list the governor
• observing that any expansive construction of the term \lottery” in Section 30-19-6 that would authorize a full range of \casino-style” gaming would be contrary to the legislature’s general public policy against gambling
• noting that “the statutory definition of a ‘lottery’ ... is extremely broad”
• finding an identical argument by the Governor to be “inconsistent with core principles of federalism”
• discussing the inquiry into whether and how much the action of one branch disrupts the work of another

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