August 11, 2018 | Albuquerque Journal Kate Ferlic is representing 295 Navajo Nation ranchers and farmers suing the Environmental Protective Agency over the 2015 Gold King Mine spill that released over 3 million gallons of toxic waste water and 352 tons of heavy metals into the Animas and San Juan Rivers. The Navajo Nation members were severely economically impacted due…
August 10, 2017 Santa Fe New Mexican Kate Ferlic, on behalf of her clients, filed lawsuit against private tutor Joel Abraham and principal of Secondary Learning Center, Antony Berzack. The suit claims Abraham had sexual relations with a 14 year old student he was tutoring, as well as making inappropriate sexual comments to another student. Ferlic accuses Berzack of knowing…
July 26, 2017 Santa Fe New Mexico New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) agreed to terms concerning a lawsuit over a sexually abuse adopted child who was living in Clovis, New Mexico. The family’s attorney, Kate Ferlic, told the Santa Fe New Mexican, “I can’t disclose the amount of the settlement but the facts of the case were horrific….
May 6, 2017 Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque Public Schools’ defense bills in the case against former APS CFO Don Moya continue to accrue over $680,000, meanwhile Moya’s attorney, Kate Ferlic, has discovered important evidence has been destroyed. “I think that APS is cutting off its nose to spite its face,” said Ferlic. “They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in…
October 10, 2016 Taos News In September, Santa Fe attorney Jamison Barkley filed a lawsuit on behalf of her client, fired former Facilities Director Steve Kennebeck against the town of Taos alleging he was fired out of retaliation. The claim states the New Mexico Whistleblower Protection Act was violated when town manager Rick Bellis fired Kennebeck after he stated Bellis “had…
July 11, 2016 Congratulations to Egolf + Ferlic + Harwood client Norm Gaume for receiving the prestigious Dixon First Amendment Award from New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (FOG). Norm Gaume, a resident of Albuquerque, is a citizen activist who has been relentless over the last two years in using IPRA and OMA to shine a light on controversial decisions by…
June 16, 2016 Albuquerque Journal Brian Egolf is representing GUS H20 LLC in a lawsuit filed against the State Land Office after State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn asked to revoke his office’s approval of GUS H2O’s applications to drill wells near Eunice, NM. “The State Land Office acted virtually without warning to cancel its agreements with GUS to that firm’s detriment…
May 27, 2016 Santa Fe New Mexican After 3 days of testimony, Judge David Thomson will visit the land in dispute between Santa Fe Girls School and adjacent neighbor Ed Sceery. The middle school students at Santa Fe Girls School use their land near La Cieneguilla to learn more about science and nature by rehabilitating the land and conducting science experiments. The…
May 14, 2016 Santa Fe New Mexican Santa Fe Public Schools paid former Ortiz Middle School Principal J. Steven Baca the agreed upon $86,000, but SFPS did not get permission from the Public Education Department to make the payment. Kate Ferlic, Baca’s attorney, and the attorneys representing Santa Fe Public Schools filed a petition asking the “First Judicial District Court…
April 22, 2016 The Los Alamos Monitor Zeynep Unal has settled her 2013 discrimination lawsuit against Los Alamos County Public Schools and Aspen Elementary principal Kathryn Vandenkieboom. Unal’s attorney Kate Ferlic told The Los Alamos Monitor, “All I can say, in pursuant to the agreement, is that the case has settled, and we are thrilled. It was a good result, a…
