STATE JUDICIAL STANDARDS COM'N v. ESPINOSA

No. 28,040.

73 P.3d 197 (2003)

134 N.M. 59

2003-NMSC-017

STATE of New Mexico, ex rel., NEW MEXICO JUDICIAL STANDARDS COMMISSION and Commissioners, Douglas W. Turner, Chair, Lay Member, Teresa G. Chaparro, Vice-Chair, Lay Member, Hon. Frank H. Allen, District Judge Member, Hon. Frank K. Wilson, District Judge Member, Hon. Buddy Hall, Magistrate Judge Member, Kathleen M. Brandt, Esq., Attorney Member, Mark A. Filosa, Esq., Attorney Member, Marie N. Garcia-Shaffner, Lay Member, Daniel H. Houck, Lay Member, Francis McKinney-Ferguson, Lay Member, and James W. Tooke, Lay Member, Petitioners, v. Valerie ESPINOSA, Zolene Knott, Esther Marquez, Paul Sena, Dr. Gloria Taradash, and Shirley Williams, Purported Appointees, Respondents, and Honorable Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

July 2, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hon. Frank K. Wilson, Alamogordo, NM, for Petitioners.

Patricia Madrid, Attorney General, David K. Thomson, Assistant Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, for Respondents.

Eugene Zamora, Santa Fe, NM, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MAES, Chief Justice.

{1} Petitioners, members of the Judicial Standards Commission (Commission), filed a petition for a writ of quo warranto with this Court, seeking to stop Governor Bill Richardson from removing the six lay members of the Commission and replacing them with new gubernatorial appointees. We issued a stay of any further business while we determined whether the Governor has the authority to remove prior gubernatorial appointees to the...

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