Attorney Roxie P. Rawls-De Santiago's Legal Cases

Employment and labor

National Education Assoc. of NM v. Central Consolidated School District, COA 34,151

Nov 30, 2017

OUTCOME: Affirmed - established rights of employees to appear before local school boards with grievances.

This case involved a series of cases in which the local school was attempting to unilaterally remove from employees their statutory right to a hearing before the local school board. The NEA-NM filed a ... Writ of Mandamus in this matter and several other related cases with the end result being that the local school board granted hearings before the local school board. Court of Appeals affirmed all lower court rulings on November 30, 2017.

Medical malpractice

Montano v. Frezza, 2015 NMCA 069, 352 P.3d 666

N/A

OUTCOME: Remanded

This case results from a Texas doctor’s failed operation on a New Mexico patient who was required to see Dr. Frezza in Texas. This issue before the Court of Appeals was whether the Texas doctor could ... be sued in New Mexico. The New Mexico Court of Appeals denied the doctor’s request to be dismissed from the case. The Supreme Court overruled the Court of Appeal and District Court and remanded.

Employment and labor

Weiss v. Board of Ed. of Santa Fe Public Schools, 2014-NMCA-100, 336 P.3d 388

N/A

OUTCOME: Established due process rights for teachers in NM schools with three years of contracts.

As a result of this case, it is now affirmatively established that teachers in public schools in New Mexico who have received three contracts and worked three contact years are entitled to full due pro ... cess in terminations at the end of their third contract. This decision provided much needed clarity for public school teachers in determining when their employer’s had to establish just cause for their termination.

Family

State ex rel. Human Services Dept. v. Rawls, 2012 NMCA 052, 279 P.3d 766

N/A

OUTCOME: Changed the law of New Mexico to allow putuative fathers to be free of paying child support for non-biological children.

This case fundamentally changed the law in New Mexico allowing putative fathers who could prove they were not the biological father of the child(ren) even after being declared by court order to be the ... putative father to be relieved of the legal duties as putuative fathers, including ongoing child support.

Employment and labor

34-PELRB-2012, NEA-New Mexico v. Espanola Public Schools

N/A

OUTCOME: Protected bargaining unit employee's right to continue bargaining.

The school was attempting to stop negotiations with the exclusive representative because it believed, but did not have proof, that the union no longer had majority support. The PELRB ruled that stoppi ... ng negotiations was a prohibited practice and was destructive to the bargaining relationship resulting in a win for the Association and forcing the school to negotiate with the Association.

Roxie P. Rawls-De Santiago's Legal Cases (5)

National Education Assoc. of NM v. Central Consolidated School District, COA 34,151

Montano v. Frezza, 2015 NMCA 069, 352 P.3d 666

Weiss v. Board of Ed. of Santa Fe Public Schools, 2014-NMCA-100, 336 P.3d 388

State ex rel. Human Services Dept. v. Rawls, 2012 NMCA 052, 279 P.3d 766

34-PELRB-2012, NEA-New Mexico v. Espanola Public Schools