Forsythe v. Ford Motor Co., S-1-SC-37761 & -37762, 2020 WL 6611059 (N.M. Nov. 12, 2020)

Forsythe v. Ford Motor Co., S-1-SC-37761 & -37762, 2020 WL 6611059 (N.M. Nov. 12, 2020)

Successfully convinced the New Mexico Supreme Court to reinstate Plaintiffs’ appeal that was wrongly dismissed as untimely by the New Mexico Court of Appeals.  The Supreme Court held that the Court of Appeals improperly gave “greater weight to procedural formalities than to basic rights of appeal” and should have deferred to the district court’s decision to grant an extension of the Plaintiffs’ notice of appeal deadline based on excusable neglect.

Caren I. Friedman, Partner