ELR Citation: 45 ELR 20013
No(s). CIV 14-0035 JB/SCY (D.N.M. Jan 19, 2015) (Browning, J.)

A district court, in a 199-page opinion, struck down a local county ordinance banning oil-and-gas drilling, including hydraulic fracturing, within Mora County, New Mexico. Portions of the ordinance essentially provide that corporations have no federal constitutional rights. For example, the ordinanc...