State Ex Rel. Stratton v. Roswell Independent Schools

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, without recognizing the New Mexico Constitution’s qualifications clause, that a school teacher and a school administrator were not barred by separation of powers from being legislators
• determining that the scope of sovereign immunity protection presented \quite a different question from\ whether dual public employment violated the separation of powers
• requiring the question posed to the appellate court to be real and not theoretical
• provision prohibiting \persons charged with the exercise of powers\ belonging to one department from exercising \any powers\ properly belonging to either of the others did not prohibit simultaneous service of teachers as legislators

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).