Legal Opinion
Alvarez v. County of Bernalillo
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided March 12, 1993No. 14014PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARTZ, Judge.
New words in the legal lexicon are as mischievous as the word “void.” The absolute victory that it promises often proves illusory. A comfortable word to use to describe certain action in one context, it may be a wholly inappropriate word to describe the same action in another context. This is a case in point.
Worker is pursuing her second appeal to this Court. In the first appeal we rejected her challenge to a compensation order issued by the Workers' Compensation Division (WCD). 1 She then moved the WCD to set aside the compensation order on the ground that it was void.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- People v. HullCalifornia Supreme Court · 1991
- Joyce O. Hodge v. Stedmann HodgeCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
- People v. Christian J.California Court of Appeal · 1984
- Springfield Credit Union v. JohnsonArizona Supreme Court · 1979
- Burton v. CastilloNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1980
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3Cited by7 opinions
- State v. WareNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1993
- VanderVossen v. City of EspanolaNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2001
- State Ex Rel. New Mexico Office of the Attorney General v. Grand River Enterprises Six Nations, Ltd.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2014
- State ex rel. Att'y Gen. v. Grand River Enters. Six Nations, Ltd.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2014
- Chavez v. City of AlbuquerqueNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1997
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