( February 6, 2026, 8:55 AM EST) -- SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed a trial court’s ruling striking a late-filed expert affidavit in a medical negligence case and its subsequent grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants for lack of causation but on different grounds than the intermediate appellate court, finding that the trial court’s action was not a discovery sanction but instead an exercise of “its authority to enforce a scheduling order.”...