Patterson v. Globe American Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the absence of an express private right of action provision indicates the legislature’s intent to not create such an action
• indicating that the legislature knows how to create a private remedy if it intends to do so
• discussing New Mexico precedent regarding private cause of action under statute not expressly providing one
• “[W]hen a right is created which did not exist at common law and for that right a remedy is by statute prescribed, the whole matter of right and remedy is within the statute and no part of either otherwise exists.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).