Chapter 28, Article 1 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the "Human Rights Act".
§ 28-1-1 NMSA 1978
Short title
Known as the Human Rights Act
The act spans §§ 28–28 (17 sections).
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Baca v. Sklar (2005)
Most recently applied in Provencio v. Intel Corp. (April 2019)
1953 Comp., § 4-33-1, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 196, § 1; 2000, ch. 4, § 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.