Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Brand West Dairy
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided June 30, 2016No. 35,426 35,438PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHÁVEZ, Justice.
{1} The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Act (Act), NMSA 1978, §§ 52-1-1 to -70 (1917, as amended through 2015), has never required employers to provide workers’ compensation coverage to farm and ranch laborers. These consolidated appeals require us to resolve whether this exclusion violates the rights of those workers under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 18 of the New Mexico Constitution in light of the fact that other agricultural workers are not singled out for exclusion. The Equal Protection Clause mandates that, “in order to be legal,”…
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