Zamora v. Village of Ruidoso Downs

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a writ of certiorari was the only mode of review to determine whether the city’s termination of an employee violated an ordinance because factual issues had to be investigated
• describing appellate standard of review for district court reviewing final agency decision
• describing district court’s scope of review when reviewing final agency decision
• absent exceptional circumstances, petition for writ of certiorari must be filed within thirty days of administrative decision
• absent exceptional circumstances, petition for writ of certiorari must be filed within thirty days of administrative decision
• “Although the proceedings before the Board may not have been termed an action for breach of an implied employment contract, those proceedings necessarily involved the question of whether the Ordinance— basis of [plaintiff’s] alleged implied employment contract — was indeed violated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).