Winter 1983, Vol. 13, No. 1

Front Matter

CONTENTS

Constitutional Torts and the New Mexico Tort Claims Act   1
Ruth L. Kovnat

Sexual Equality, the ERA and the Court-A Tale of Two Failures   53
Phyllis A. Dow

The Guilty But Mentally Ill Verdict and Plea in New Mexico  99
Luis G. Stelzner and Rosanne Piatt

Judicial Deflection of Scientific Questions: Pushing Laetrile Towards Medical Closure   119
Robert L. Schwartz

NOTES AND COMMENT

COMMENT: The Constitution is Constitutional—A Reply to "The Constitutionality of Pretrial Detention Without Bail in New Mexico"  145
Sarah Curry Smith and Matthew Holt

REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS—When Recording of a Lien Instrument is Not Notice to the Whole World—Actual Notice Required to Protect Second Lien on a Real Estate Contract: Shindledecker v. Savage   177
William M. Casey

COMMUNITY PROPERTY—Spouse's Future Federal Civil Service Disability Benefits are Community Property to the Extent the Community Contributed to the Civil Service Fund During Marriage: Hughes v. Hughes   193
Gary Eisenberg

JURY—Trial Judge's Inquiry into Numerical Division of Jury: State v. Rickerson   205
Roberta Price

ADOPTION—INTESTATE SUCCESSION—The Denial of a Stepparent Adoptee's Right to Inherit from an Intestate Natural Grandparent: In Re Estate of Holt   221
Barbara C. Quissell