The New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration is not planning to appeal a district court ruling finding an exemption to the state's Workers' Compensation Act excluding farm and ranch workers from coverage is unconstitutional.New Mexico 2nd Judicial District Judge Valeria Huling said in a Dec. 27 opinion in Griego et al. v. New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration that a statute enacted in 1917 that excluded farm and agricultural workers from the New Mexico Workers' Compensation Act is arbitrary and unconstitutional. "Although the legislative intent of the farm ...
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