Legal Opinion
Gill v. Public Employees Retirement Board of the Public Employees Retirement Ass'n of New Mexico
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided April 28, 2004No. 27,823PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOSSON, Justice.
{1} In Cockrell v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, 2002-NMSC-009, 132 N.M. 156, 45 P.3d 876, we acknowledged New Mexico’s constitutional sovereign immunity, derived from both the federal Constitution and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent. We continue to clarify the contours of that immunity by defining the limited circumstances under which a state official may be sued for prospective, injunctive relief. Consistent with federal law and our obligations as a state under the federalist compact, we apply the doctrine of Ex parte Young to such actions as a…
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3Cited by27 opinions
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