Claim: Judge dismisses lawsuit against New Mexico health provider.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Santa Fe Reporter
text: which investigated health care in New Mexico prisons, was instrumental in governor Bill Richardson's decision to end New Mexico's contract with Wexford. In 2013, the "Santa Fe Reporter" filed a lawsuit against New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, alleging violations of the state's Inspection of Public Records Act as well as a violation of the Free Press clause of the New Mexico Constitution. Attorneys for the newspaper and the government argued in court in March of 2017, and Judge Sara Singleton ruled in the case from her retirement in December of that year that the governor had broken the records law,

title: Michelle Lujan Grisham
text: suit against her husband's physician, which was dismissed. Michelle Lujan Grisham Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham (; born October 24, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the governor-elect of New Mexico. On November 6, 2018, she became the first Democratic woman elected as governor of New Mexico, as well as the first Democratic Latina elected state chief executive in the history of the United States. Lujan Grisham previously served as Secretary of Health of New Mexico (2004–2007) and Bernalillo

title: Ted Cruz
text: judge's jurisdiction expired thirty days after the case was dismissed following an out-of-court settlement, but later won on a second appeal using the same argument. Cruz defended two record-setting $54-million personal injury awards in New Mexico at the appellate level, including one which had been thrown out by a lower court. Cruz represented a mentally disabled man who was allegedly raped by an employee of the facility where he lived. And in the other case Cruz represented the family of a 78-year-old resident of an Albuquerque nursing home who died of internal bleeding. The settlements were sealed in both cases.

title: Susana Martinez
text: hotel security referring to the governor as "inebriated." Using a provision of Obamacare requiring the freeze of Medicaid payments to healthcare providers when a credible allegation of fraud exists, the New Mexico Human Services Department suspended payments to 15 behavioral health organizations after Attorney General Gary King accepted the Departments referrals. The subsequent investigations, completed years later by Attorney General Hector Balderas uncovered record keeping discrepancies at each organization, but did not find "an intentional pattern of fraud." Some of the organizations shut down because they were not able to sustain operations without Medicaid funds and were replaced by La

title: Corizon
text: million to settle lawsuits brought by the state. Most of the suits, press reports indicate were related to a single doctor who was accused of sexually abusing inmates at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa and the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility in Clayton. Other payments were for two deaths of inmates. Corizon Corizon Health, Inc., formed by a 2011 merger of Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS) and Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), is the "foremost" privately held prison healthcare contractor in the United States. The company provides healthcare and pharmacy services (PharmaCorr) to approximately 98 clients in

title: Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
text: the district judge did not expect all the issues to be resolved in state court. Having settled that question, Brennan began a lengthy discussion of the abstention issue. He revisited the "Colorado River" opinion he had written, emphasizing its reliance on "wise judicial administration". Here he clarified that "the decision whether to dismiss a federal action because of parallel state court litigation does not rest on a mechanical checklist, but on a careful balancing of the important factors as they apply in a given case, with the balance heavily weighted in favor of the exercise of jurisdiction." The hospital had

title: Laura's Law
text: suffered from abusing this right — so much so that reform laws in the 1970s and 1980s took the profession's right away from them to confine people against their will. Such forced treatment now requires a judge's signature. But over time, that judicial oversight — which is supposed to be the check in our checks-and-balance system — has largely become a rubber stamp to whatever the doctor thinks is best. The patient's voice once again threatens to become silenced, now under the guise of "assisted outpatient treatment" (just a modern, different term for forced treatment)." The New Mexico Court of

title: Camran Nezhat
text: July 21, 1998, after not being able to find a medical expert to corroborate her claims. The judge ruled that the claims were baseless and/or frivolous and dismissed Manov's entire case. The judge imposed a fine against Manov's attorney for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Another former patient, Mary (Stacey) Mullen, and her attorney, Jim Neal, claimed that Nezhat's surgery caused her permanent damage to her bowel. Mullen and Neal (and later Mullen's new attorney, Byrne) also accused Nezhat of battery and of being involved in RICO offenses (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations). The judge found these and several other claims

title: Susana Martinez
text: subject to flooding, and Martinez asked the Obama administration for federal relief funding. In 2012 the chief medical officer for the New Mexico Department of Health and the deputy secretary both resigned. The individuals allege that Martinez ordered their termination for promoting birth control to the public. Martinez and the New Mexico Department of Health denied any connection between the resignations and an interview concerning condom use. Many Republicans speculated as to whether Martinez would be the vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket in 2012 and 2016, but she said numerous times that she would not run. On May

title: Dismissed U.S. attorneys summary
text: prosecutions in New Mexico history, a record number of overall prosecutions and a 95 percent conviction rate. (In one of the documents released this week, I was deemed a "diverse up and comer" in 2004. Two years later I was asked to resign with no reasons given.)...[the fired U.S. attorneys] had apparently been singled out for political reasons." In addition, Iglesias responded to critics about his failure to pursue voter fraud cases: "As this story has unfolded these last few weeks, much has been made of my decision to not prosecute alleged voter fraud in New Mexico. Without the benefit

title: Topeka State Hospital
text: "conscience shocking" conduct by the state mental health administrators sued in the instant case," thus affirming the district court's grant of Defendants' motion for summary judgment. In 2001, Cynthia Turnbull, a psychologist at the Topeka State Hospital, sued her employer and the state for sexual harassment after she was sexually assaulted by a patient. The jury found a sexually hostile work environment existed at TSH, but it split over whether TSH should be held legally responsible for that environment. After learning of the jury's inability to decide, the district court granted an earlier defense motion for judgment as a matter

title: Assisted suicide
text: court ruling. "This court cannot envision a right more fundamental, more private or more integral to the liberty, safety and happiness of a New Mexican than the right of a competent, terminally ill patient to choose aid in dying," wrote Judge Nan G. Nash of the Second District Court in Albuquerque. The NM attorney general's office said it was studying the decision and whether to appeal to the State Supreme Court. However, this was overturned on August 11, 2015 by the New Mexico Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, that overturned the Bernalillo County District Court Ruling. The Court

title: Neil McCarthy (basketball)
text: would have followed him to his new employer unless that school demonstrated that he had served his punishment. After his ouster, McCarthy sued New Mexico State for wrongful termination. During a deposition related to that suit, McCarthy admitted under oath that he'd entered into a verbal agreement to hire Fletcher Cockrell, then the head coach at Jones County Community College in Mississippi, as an assistant coach if two of his star players signed with New Mexico State. Cockrell helped the players with their coursework and exams. After the violations came to light, New Mexico State withdrew from postseason consideration for

title: Luis Armando Andrade Guillen
text: Victor that the state should assume the payment of medical expenses. Armando´s parents explained that the driver was working for the state and that the truck was property of the state. There was no support from the government, and then Armando's mother decided to sue the state and seek the attorney Rafael Ortega Cruz, who agreed to help the family at no cost. In November 2001, Bertha was threatened with death for having made the demand against the state government. After 10 years of litigation, the local judge ordered the state government to pay damages. After Armando underwent surgery, the

title: Winkler County nurse whistleblower case
text: alleged violations of civil rights, breaches of due process and improper termination. A few months after Mitchell's trial, Galle and Mitchell split a $750,000 settlement in the civil suit. The nurses, who both live in Jal, New Mexico, were unable to find employment in nursing after being terminated from WCMH. After signing the settlement, Wiley reinforced his support of Arafiles, saying, "He’s done a lot of good in this county. If you have a heart attack or anything of that nature in the emergency room, he is definitely the doctor that you want to take care of you." Several officials

title: Kendra's Law
text: to confine people against their will. Such forced treatment now requires a judge's signature. But over time, that judicial oversight — which is supposed to be the check in our checks-and-balance system — has largely become a rubber stamp to whatever the doctor thinks is best. The patient's voice once again threatens to become silenced, now under the guise of "assisted outpatient treatment" (just a modern, different term for forced treatment)." The New Mexico Court of Appeals declared an Albuquerque ordinance, modeled after Kendra's Law, requiring treatment for some mentally ill people conflicts with state law and can't be enforced.

title: Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
text: which in this case would have allowed the hospital to avoid arbitration. He called the hospital's contention that its designation of the architect, also based in North Carolina, as the dispute-resolution authority and the latter's status as a defendant in its lawsuit "a novel theory for avoiding arbitration". He distinguished the case from "Will v. Calvert Fire Ins. Co.", in which the Supreme Court had sustained a federal court's absention in favor of a state court, by saying there were no exceptional circumstances. In that case, the state action had long preceded the federal action, and unlike "Colorado River" the

title: Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter
text: over indirect costs, the Chapter filed a contract appeal with the BIA in 1990. The BIA denied the appeal, noting even so that the Chapter was correct that including the state grants in the calculation was contrary to law. On October 4, 1990, the Chapter filed a lawsuit for breach of contract in the New Mexico Federal District Court. The suit asked for compensatory damages and injunctive relief, and for certification as a class action case. In 1993, the district court granted the United States summary judgment and denied the Chapter's motion for summary judgment. A final judgment was entered

title: Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
text: the state court, Mercury had been denied the speedy resolution of its demand for arbitration as guaranteed in the FAA. In concluding he addressed the stay itself. "I think that what Mr. Floyd and the hospital are suggesting here turns "Colorado River" upside down," he said. "What the hospital is really arguing, we think, is that the mere fact of the prior filing of the case in the state court system requires that the case be referred back to the state court system." The facts of the cases were totally different, he continued. "Colorado River" had a federal statute explicitly

title: Same-sex marriage in New Mexico
text: filed a similar lawsuit, "Hanna v. Salazar", in district court against the Santa Fe County Clerk and the state Attorney General. On June 27, following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in "United States v. Windsor", the lawsuit was withdrawn from district court and filed in the New Mexico Supreme Court. On July 22, Attorney General King told the court that "New Mexico's guarantee of equal protection to its citizens demands that same-sex couples be permitted to enjoy the benefits of marriage in the same way and to the same extent as other New Mexico citizens", but he argued that the