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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Selling Fuel to Intoxicated Drivers, Ethics Issue in Proposed Merger & Public Financing Challenges | 7.23.21
Description: The Line opinion roundtable offers reactions and insight on the New Mexico Supreme Court’s recent decision that gas stations have a duty to refuse to sell fuel to drunk drivers. Under the ruling, businesses could be held liable if a drunk driver then injures someone. The NM Supreme Court made the decision in the wake of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed by an intoxicated driver who had run out of gas, walked to a station for a small amount, then returned to fill up before causing the deadly accident.
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