Legal Opinion
Akins v. United Steelworkers of America
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided March 13, 2009No. 27,132PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KENNEDY, Judge.
{1} In this case, we determine that there is no need to address the first-impression question of choosing which statute of limitations applies to civil suits between public employees and their unions. The options rest between the six-month statute of limitations for prohibited practices under the Public Employee Bargaining Act (the PEBA) and the four-year catch-all statute of limitations applied by the district court to this common-law suit for breach of a union’s duty of fair representation (the DFR). Determining that the six-month statute of limitations does not apply…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Wilde v. WESTLAND DEVELOPMENT CO., INC.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2010
- Akins v. United Steel Workers of AmericaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2010
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- Helena Chemical Co. v. UribeNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2012
- Martinez v. New Mexico Department of TransportationNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2011
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