Bradley Bolen vs. NMRC

Trainer-VS.-Steward Spat Yields New Mexico Supreme Court Opinion on Immunity in Certain Civil Rights Suits

A Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse trainer's argument with a New Mexico state steward in 2021 over a licensing dispute that got escalated all the way up that state's Supreme Court has resulted in a ruling issued Monday establishing that New Mexico's governmental organizations can be immune from liability in civil rights lawsuits if they are carrying out administrative actions that are judicial in nature. According to an opinion issued June 2 by the Supreme Court of New Mexico in a case involving Bradley Bolen vs. the New Mexico Racing Commission...

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