· 9/7/1973
State Ex Rel. Norvell v. Credit Bureau of Albuquerque, Inc.
Citations
- 514 P.2d 40
- 85 N.M. 521
How courts have described this case
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- holding that exhaustion of administrative remedies is not required if futile to do so
- indicating that “representation of parties before judicial or administrative bodies” or “giving legal advice and counsel” would constitute the practice of law
- noting that “[t]he doctrine of exhaustion of remedies does not require the initiation of and participation in proceedings ... which are vain and futile”
- noting that \[t]he doctrine of exhaustion of remedies does not require the initiation of and participation in proceedings . . . which are vain and futile\
- rejecting an interpretation of two statutes that would permit unlicensed persons to practice law in magistrate court as an unconstitutional invasion of the Court’s “exclusive constitutional prerogative” to regulate the practice of law
- exhaustion of remedies not required when administrative tribunal clearly lacks jurisdiction or when exhaustion would be vain and futile
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Judges: Stephenson, Oman, Martinez
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