Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez
New Mexico Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MONTGOMERY, Justice.
We granted certiorari to consider the following two questions of substantial public interest:1 (1) Did the court of appeals have jurisdiction to entertain petitioner’s application for interlocutory appeal, even though the application was granted more than twenty days after it was filed? (2) On the merits, may the parents of a normal, healthy baby conceived as a result of a negligently performed, unsuccessful sterilization operation recover the costs of raising the child from birth to adulthood?
The court of appeals held that the answer to both questions is yes and…
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- Schmitz v. SmentowskiNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1990
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