Legal Opinion
Board of Education Taos Municipal Schools v. Architects
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided November 12, 1985No. 15648PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SOSA, Senior Justice.
The issue presented in this case requires us to develop guidelines to establish at what point a party, by participating in litigation, has waived a contractual right to arbitration.
Plaintiff, Taos Municipal School District (Taos) originally filed suit on May 1, 1978 against Pendleton Construction Company (Pendleton) and its bonding company, the American Fidelity Fire Insurance Company (Fidelity) seeking damages for Pendleton’s breach of a contract for construction of a school building. By its Second Amended Complaint, filed on July 29, 1983, Taos Schools joined as…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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