Legal Opinion
American Legion Post No. 49 v. Hughes
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided July 25, 1995No. 14831PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PICKARD, Judge.
Several charitable and fraternal organizations (the Clubs) licensed to conduct certain games of chance under the Bingo and Raffle Act (the Act), NMSA 1978, Sections 60-2B-1 to -14 (Repl.Pamp.1991), brought suit for declaratory judgment requesting that their practice of exchanging pull tabs for free games won on certain video machines they operated be declared a permissible “game of chance” under the Act. The district court held that their practice was not permissible under the Act, and that the Clubs’ right to equal protection was not violated by holding the practice…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Rainaldi v. Public Employees Retirement BoardNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1993
- Stuckey's Stores, Inc. v. O'CheskeyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1979
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