JOHNSON v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. A-1-CA-39732.

535 P.3d 687 (2023)

2023-NMCA-069

McKenzie JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS and Mary Jane Eastin, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Granted, September 12, 2023, No. S-1-SC-39961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parnall & Adams Law, Charles S. Parnall , David M. Adams , Albuquerque, NM, ACLU of New Mexico, Leon Howard , Maria Martinez Sánchez , Preston Sanchez , Albuquerque, NM, NM Center on Law and Poverty, Sovereign Hager , Verenice Peregrino Pompa , Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant.

Walsh Gallegos Treviño Kyle & Robinson, P.C., Roxie P. Rawls-De Santiago , Karla Schultz , Stephanie Mendivil , Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee Board of Education for the Albuquerque Public Schools.

Robles, Rael and Anaya, Luis Robles , Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee Mary Jane Eastin.

Egolf + Ferlic + Martinez + Harwood, LLC, Kristina Martinez , Jeff Dan Herrera , Santa Fe, NM, for Amicus Curiae Equality New Mexico.

Lysette Romero Córdova , Supervising Attorney, Elisa Cibils , Clinicial Law Student, Emily Romero , Clinical Law Student, Albuquerque, NM, for Amici Curiae Native American Budget and Policy Institute and Native American Disability Law Center.


OPINION

{1} This appeal asks whether a public secondary school in New Mexico can be classified as a public accommodation under the pre-2023 iteration of the New Mexico Human Rights Act (the NMHRA), NMSA 1978, §§ 28-1-1 to -15 (1969, as amended through 2021), and therefore subject to the requirements...

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