Legal Opinion
Encinias v. Whitener Law Firm, P.A.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided December 6, 2012No. 33,874; Docket No. 30,106PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KENNEDY, Judge.
{1} In 2006, the parents of Plaintiff Joe Robert Encinias met personally with Defendants Whitener Law Firm, P.A. and Russell Whitener (collectively, Whitener) to pursue a lawsuit against Encinias’s school district for a brutal beating that Encinias suffered at the hands of two students during school hours. There is no dispute that Whitener took on the case and failed to file the case within the statute of limitations. When Encinias inquired about the status of the case, Whitener scurried to mend the situation by improperly filing the case with the district court in order…
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- Bober v. New Mexico State FairNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1991
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- Williams v. StewartNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2005
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Encinias v. Whitener Law Firm, P.A.New Mexico Supreme Court · 2013
- Encinias v. Whitener Law Firm, P.A.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2012
- Encinias v. Whitener Law Firm, P.A.New Mexico Supreme Court · 2013