The New Mexico Supreme Court issued a ruling last week upholding a 2014 decision by the Public Regulation Commission which grants a second ambulance company operating authority in Valencia County. American Medical Response began operating in the county in April 2013 under a 90-day temporary authority issued by the PRC. The company was given permanent operating authority in September 2013. A year later, the Supreme Court ordered AMR to go back to the commission and apply for operating authority after it ruled that the company’s attorney should have been disqualified from the application proceedings because she had previously represented Living Cross Ambulance Service, which has been in operation in the county since 1987.