Election-Campaign Law

NM Election Audit report available
The report from our 2006 study of election audits in New Mexico is now available, “The New Mexico 2006 Post Election Audit Report...

University of New Mexico Collaboration
Michael Alvarez and Thad Hall are in New Mexico with Lonna Atkeson at the University of New Mexico where they are collaborating on a research project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts "Make Voting Work" initiative, titled "Lessons for All in Determining Voter Intent and Election Integrity: A 2006 Post Election Audit Study of New Mexico's Optical Scan Ballots in Bernalillo County, New Mexico...

New Mexico Election Audit
Well, thanks to Melissa for posting the link to the webcast of the New Mexico Election Audit (turned out that the firewall in the election warehouse in Bernalillo County would not let me access blogger...

Election auditing in New Mexico
The New Mexico Independent ran a story last week, “N.M.’s ‘08 election results to be audited...

New Mexico Election Audit: Day One
For those who have been watching the webcast of the NewMexico Election audit project, you've no doubt seen that wespent the morning training the audit team members, mainlyon the procedures associated with the machine recount ofprecinct ballots...

Circumstances That May Trigger an Audit
With IRS Problems in your past, the last thing you want to do is undergo an audit whether it is a correspondence audit or a face-to-face audit...

Can failure of an employer to provide healthy working conditions lead to wrongful discharge?
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) protects workers from...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

How to collect a personal loan from a spouse?
You local court will probably have someone to offer you some assistance as you p...

Can I be held responsible for paying child support if I signed a birth certificate of a child that was not mine (am not the biological father)?
Get yourself some legal counsil straigth away. Explain you situation to him/her ...

NPS Pharmaceuticals
Settles 2006 Class Action

Salmonella Found in Tomotoes
57 Reported Cases in New Mexico and Texas

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Settlement
Travis County TX offers 72-year old woman $40k to settle taser suit

TransUnion
Class action credit practices suit offers free credit monitoring services for millions.

Malpractice at Nursing Home Results in $125K Settlement
Zyprexa Overdose Nursing Home to Pay $125K