Coulston Foundation v. Madrid

OPINION

VIGIL, Judge.

{1} The Attorney General (AG) issued a “civil investigative demand” (CID) to the Coulston Foundation (the Foundation) pursuant to the Charitable Solicitations Act, NMSA 1978, §§ 57-22-1 to -11 (1983, as amended through 1999) (the Act). The AG was conducting an investigation of the Foundations’s endowment system established for the care and well-being of chimpanzees, and issued the CID to obtain information and documents relevant to that investigation. The district court denied the Foundation’s petition to set aside the CID, and the Foundation appeals, contending: (1) its…