Griego v. Oliver (NM)
Complaint filed 3/21/2013; NM Supreme Court ruling issued 12/19/2013
In August of 2013 NCLR along with the ACLU of NM, Albuquerque law firm Sutin, Thayer & Brown, APC filed a lawsuit on behalf of a New Mexico couple seeking the right to same-sex marriage. The couple, who had been together for 21 years, was unable to travel to another state to marry as one of them was sick with cancer, and they were not sure if they could wait the normal course of a lawsuit, so NCLR and co-counsel asked the court for an emergency order, which the court granted. Jen and Angelique were married in a ceremony performed at a cancer care clinic, and in addition to allowing them to marry, the court entered a final Judgment concluding that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violates the New Mexico Constitution.
