Legal Opinion
Buchwald v. University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 20, 1998No. 96-2121, 96-2129PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
The University of New Mexico School of Medicine (“UNMSM”) has a stated policy that, all other things being equal, it will favor long-term residents over short-term residents in its admissions process. The district court first found this preference to violate “clearly established” law concerning the fundamental right to travel and therefore ruled that the individual defendants, Doctors Klep-per and Atencio, were not entitled to qualified immunity. A week later, the district court issued an injunction prohibiting UNMSM from considering length of residency in future…
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