Opinion ID: 1694480
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Text: Article VI, Section 3 of the New Mexico Constitution gives the Supreme Court broad powers, including superintending control over all inferior courts. Article VI, Section 2 also gives an aggrieved party an absolute right to one appeal, a provision absent in most state constitutions. In State v. Garcia, 101 N.M. 232, 680 P.2d 613, 615 (N.M.App. 1984), the Court of Appeals noted: The inherent power to prescribe rules and regulate pleadings, practice and procedure in all courts of this State is vested in the Supreme Court under N.M. Const. art. III, § 1, and N.M. Const. art. VI, § 3. Yet, in Hillhaven Corp. v. Human Services Dept., 108 N.M. 372, 772 P.2d 902, 903 (Ct. App. 1989), the Court held: [A] right of appeal is conferred by substantive law and is outside the supreme court's rule-making ability... . The supreme court is powerless to create a substantive right of appeal by adopting a rule... . [T]his court is without jurisdiction to consider the matter. 772 P.2d at 904.