New Mexico Gamefowl Ass'n v. State Ex Rel. King

OPINION

CASTILLO, Judge.

{1} This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiffs’ constitutional challenges to the New Mexico eockfighting ban dictated by NMSA 1978, Sections 30-18-1 and-9 (2007). The district court dismissed the complaint based on Plaintiffs’ lack of standing and the determination that the challenged statutes were constitutional. Although we hold that the district court erred with respect to its ruling on associational standing, we agree with the district court that the statutes are constitutional, and we therefore affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

{2} In 2007, our Legislature amended Sections…