Supreme Court of Nevada Decisions 2020
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 83
Docket Number: 75669
Justia Opinion Summary: In this defamation action, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the district court denying Defendant's special motion to dismiss under Nev. Rev. Stat. 41.660, Nevada's anti-SLAPP statute, holding that each of…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 84
Docket Number: 76924
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying St. Jude children's Research Hospital's petition to probate Theodore Scheide, Jr.'s lost will, holding that St. Jude met its burden to show the will was…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 90
Docket Number: 77964
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the district court concluding that a residual beneficiary's objection to the second and third amendments to the Ella E. Horst Revocable Trust was time-barred under Nev. Rev.…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 88
Docket Number: 78572
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that when a tortfeasor settles with the plaintiff, the tortfeasor may then assert a claim for contribution against a doctor who allegedly caused new injuries in treating the original injury. Marie…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 85
Docket Number: 78661
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court entering judgment for Green Tree Servicing, LLC in this action to quiet title brought after a homeowners' association (HOA) lien foreclosure sale upon finding…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 86
Docket Number: 78967
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court ordering the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Metro) to disclose patrol officer unit assignments from 2014 through 2016, holding that the officers…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 89
Docket Number: 79137
Justia Opinion Summary: In this divorce action in which Wife filed first in California and Husband filed second in Nevada, the Supreme Court reversed the district court's order dismissing the Nevada case, holding the the district court erred by…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 87
Docket Number: 79460
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the district court granting a preliminary injunction based on a blue-penciled noncompetition agreement, holding that Golden Road Motor Inn, Inc. v. Islam, 376 P.3d 151, 159 (Nev.…
Date: December 31, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 91
Docket Number: 80480
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reaffirmed in this case that undocumented aliens who are injured while working for a Nevada employer may be eligible for monetary disability benefits, holding that these monetary benefits, paid by the…
Date: December 24, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 82
Docket Numbers: 73856, 74566
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court in favor of Plaintiffs on their Title IX and 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims against a school district for student-on-student harassment and remanded for further…
Date: December 10, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 78
Docket Number: 73825
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of conspiring with a hitman to have his sixth wife murdered during a staged burglary and then murdering the hitman, holding that the district court abused its discretion…
Date: December 10, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 79
Docket Number: 78833
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's decision to recognize and enforce in Nevada the disgorgement portion of a securities-fraud judgment from British Columbia, holding that the district court properly…
Date: December 10, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 77
Docket Number: 80090
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying Rajwant Kaur's motion to set aside a 2004 divorce decree, holding that the district court erred because it did not consider the traditional judicial…
Date: December 10, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 81
Docket Number: 80181
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of driving and/or being in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or alcohol resulting in substantial bodily harm…
Date: December 10, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 80
Docket Number: 80358
Justia Opinion Summary: In these two personal injury disputes the Supreme Court denied Petitioners' petition for a writ of mandamus demanding that the Supreme Court reverse the district court's order denying their two motions to strike requests…
Date: December 3, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 73
Docket Number: 75750
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a creditor of a settlor may bring a claim against a settlor of a trust so long as the settlor's interest in the trust is not solely discretionary and there is not a spendthrift provision…
Date: December 3, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 74
Docket Number: 79134
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying the petition for judicial review filed by Silverwing Development challenging the fine imposed upon it by the Nevada State Contractors Board for…
Date: December 3, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 75
Docket Number: 79638
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying Appellant's petition to seal his criminal records stemming from a guilty plea to open or gross lewdness, a gross misdemeanor, holding that Appellant was…
Date: December 3, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 76
Docket Number: 79695
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that NAC 281.305(1)(a) is a jurisdictional rule that exceeds the rulemaking authority of the Nevada Department of Administration's Personnel Commission. NAC 281.305(1)(a) provides that a state…
Date: November 5, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 72
Docket Numbers: 75022, 75319, 75321, 76395, 76396, 76397
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court imposing case-termination sanctions on MDB Trucking, LLC for spoliation of evidence, holding that the record did not support the imposition of case-terminating…
Date: October 29, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 68
Docket Number: 77010
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the district court's order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant in this foreclosure action, holding that the loan servicer timely commenced the action after the foreclosure sale and…
Date: October 29, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 69
Docket Number: 77668
Justia Opinion Summary: In this construction defect lawsuit, the Supreme Court affirmed the order of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of Respondents and reversed the grant of attorney fees to respondent Land West Builders,…
Date: October 29, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 70
Docket Number: 77708
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court dismissing Appellant's defamation claim against The Associated Press and one of its reporters (collectively, Respondents), holding that a news article…
Date: October 29, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 71
Docket Number: 79817
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of two counts of lewdness with a child under the age of sixteen, holding that a mistaken belief as to the victim's age is not a defense to the crime of lewdness with a…
Date: October 8, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 64
Docket Number: 75197
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court granting summary judgment and awarding attorney fees and costs in favor of Zitting Brothers Construction, a subcontractor on a development project, on its…
Date: October 8, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 65
Docket Number: 78443
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying Clark County's petition for judicial review of the decision of an appeals officer reversing Clark County's denial of a retiree's claim for ongoing…
Date: October 8, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 66
Docket Number: 78916
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying Appellant's petition for judicial review of the order of the Nevada Gaming Control Board affirming the decision of a Board agent that a casino's refusal…
Date: October 8, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 67
Docket Numbers: 79792, 80008, 80009
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted these consolidated writ petitions filed by the Washoe County District Attorney's Office challenging the Second Judicial District Court's authority to compel it to participate in a record-sealing…
Date: October 1, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 63
Docket Numbers: 76981, 77648, 77733
Justia Opinion Summary: In this derivative action, the Supreme Court held that a corporation, as a nominal defendant, is precluded from challenging the merits of a derivative action but may challenge a shareholder plaintiff's standing in such…
Date: October 1, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 61
Docket Numbers: 75911, 72829
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of Judge Douglas Smith denying Defendant's post-trial motions for a new trial and to reconstruct the record after discovering a jury note that the trial judge, Senior Judge James…
Date: October 1, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 62
Docket Number: 76465
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction, holding that Defendant waived his challenge under Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968), and that any other errors were harmless and did not amount to cumulative…
Date: October 1, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 60
Docket Number: 78152
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court denying Appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, holding that the plain language of Nev. Rev. Stat. 34.810(1)(a) excludes claims of ineffective…
Date: September 17, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 58
Docket Number: 75917
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court answered in the negative a question certified to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, holding that the public trust doctrine does not permit the reallocation of rights already adjudicated and…
Date: September 17, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 59
Docket Number: 78480
Date: August 27, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 56
Docket Number: 77981
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgments of the district court confirming Third Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to a Survivor's Trust and denying a challenge to the settlor's capacity, holding that the district court failed…
Date: August 20, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 55
Docket Number: 78086
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's amended judgment in favor of the buyers of residential real property and against the sellers and the real estate agents of both the buyers and the sellers and offsetting…
Date: August 6, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 53
Docket Number: 77780
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying Appellants' Nev. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(1) motion, holding that the district court abused its discretion by failing to address the factors announced in Yochum…
Date: August 6, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 54
Docket Number: 79549
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgment of the district court refusing to find that a minor child's reunification with Father was not viable for purposes of Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ)…
Date: July 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 47
Docket Number: 74275
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case arising from a failed attempt to restore and reopen the historic Cal Neva Lodge, the Supreme Court affirmed the district court's decision to deny relief on the claims brought by Plaintiff, an investor,…
Date: July 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 48
Docket Number: 78230
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the district court granting Defendant's motion to suppress drugs and drug paraphernalia police discovered while searching her backpack, holding that the district court properly…
Date: July 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 49
Docket Number: 78434
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that Nev. Rev. Stat. 258.007 does not give the Clark County Board of Commissioners (Board) power to remove a constable from office or necessitate quo warranto proceedings because the statute works…
Date: July 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 50
Docket Number: 78517
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying Appellants' anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss, holding that Nevada's anti-SLAPP statutes do not violate the constitutional right to a jury trial and that the…
Date: July 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 51
Docket Number: 78926
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal regarding the scope of the law-enforcement exception to the "going and coming rule" in workers' compensation matters the Supreme Court affirmed the order of the district court reversing the decision of the…
Date: July 16, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 44
Docket Number: 70587
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part Defendant's conviction of ten counts of sexual conduct between a teacher and student and two counts of first-degree kidnapping, holding sexual conduct between…
Date: July 16, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 45
Docket Number: 76038
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court accepted questions certified by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and answered that the identity of a substance is an element of the crime articulated in Nev. Rev. Stat. 453.337…
Date: July 16, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 46
Docket Number: 76117
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the order of the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline that imposed a public reprimand on a family court judge, holding that the the Commission misapplied the statutes governing judicial…
Date: July 16, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 43
Docket Number: 77587
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction of guilty but mentally ill on charges of murder with the use of a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm at or into an occupied structure, holding that the district…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 36
Docket Number: 77473
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that it does not have jurisdiction to review a district court order denying a request for a joint preliminary injunction pursuant to EDCR 5.517 in a family law matter because no court rule or…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 37
Docket Number: 77704
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that service of a petition for judicial review of an agency's decision does not require personal service under Nev. R. Civ. P. 4.2(a) because a petition for judicial review is best construed as a…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 35
Docket Numbers: 77711, 77086
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the orders of the district court granting summary judgment to Respondents on Appellant's defamation claims and malicious-prosecution claim, holding that the…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 38
Docket Number: 77751
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction, holding that, based on the record, it was more likely than not that the State used a peremptory challenge for impermissible reasons in violation of Batson v. Kentucky,…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 39
Docket Number: 77810
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the "common knowledge" exception to the affidavit requirement for professional negligence claims against a provider of health care can also be applied to determine whether a claim that appears…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 40
Docket Number: 78284
Justia Opinion Summary: In this real property dispute, the Supreme Court clarified that its holding in Davidson v. Davidson, 382 P.3d 880 (Nev. 2016), does not apply to claims for enforcement of real property distribution in divorce…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 41
Docket Number: 78624
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that the entire amount of a homeowners' association's (HOA) yearly assessment can be included in the superpriority piece of an HOA's lien under Nev. Rev. Stat. 116.3116 so long as the assessment…
Date: July 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 42
Docket Number: 80637
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a government entity does not have "possession, custody, or control" over the content on the personal cell phones of former workers hired through a temporary employment agency so as to be…
Date: June 26, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 34
Docket Number: 80313
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate its order disqualifying the Legislative Counsel Bureau Legal Division (LCB Legal) on conflict of interest grounds,…
Date: June 18, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 32
Docket Number: 76621
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction for sexual assault of a minor under sixteen years of age, holding that the district court erred in instructing the jury, and the jury instruction errors were not harmless…
Date: June 4, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 31
Docket Number: 72325
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed one of Defendant's convictions for robbery but affirmed the judgment of conviction in all other respects after adopting factors to guide the Court in deciding whether to consider an error's…
Date: May 28, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 28
Docket Number: 77085
Justia Opinion Summary: In this property dispute, the Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court granting Respondents' motion to dismiss on the basis of claim preclusion, holding that Appellant's action in Case 2 could not have been…
Date: May 28, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 29
Docket Number: 78883
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a writ of prohibition sought by Petitioners challenging a district court order compelling the production of allegedly privileged documents in a trust dispute with a beneficiary, holding that the…
Date: May 28, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 30
Docket Number: 79288
Date: May 21, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 27
Docket Number: 71348
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the district court's order sua sponte modifying a discovery sanction in this negligence case, holding that the district court committed legal error by modifying the sanction and that the timing…
Date: April 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 22
Docket Number: 75932
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed Defendant's conviction for murder in the first degree but affirmed his remaining convictions, holding that the district court abused its discretion by declining to instruct the jury on…
Date: April 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 24
Docket Numbers: 78085, 78243
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted Petitioners' petitions for extraordinary relief in part and denied the petitions in part, holding that intervention after final judgment is impermissible under Nev. Rev. Stat. 12.130 and that an…
Date: April 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 23
Docket Number: 79452
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied the State's petition challenging the district court's order denying the State's proposed jury instruction regarding the level of mens rea the State must prove to convict David Radonski of arson,…
Date: April 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 20
Docket Numbers: 76417, 76845
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court denied Defendants' petitions for writ of mandamus challenging the district court's bail process and decisions, holding that, to safeguard against pretrial detainees sitting in jail simply because they…
Date: April 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 21
Docket Number: 76582
Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute between a trust's trustee and beneficiary the Supreme Court granted the trustee's original writ petition seeking a writ of prohibition or, alternatively, mandamus on the grounds that a discovery order was…
Date: April 9, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 19
Docket Number: 78187
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving the extent to which a judgment debtor's rights of action are subject to execution to satisfy a judgment the Supreme Court held that a judgment debtor's claims that are unassignable cannot be…
Date: April 2, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 14
Docket Number: 75920
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a voluntary dismissal with prejudice generally conveys "prevailing party" status upon the defendant for purposes of an award of attorney fees and costs under Nev. Rev. Stat. 18.010(2) and Nev.…
Date: April 2, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 13
Docket Number: 76950
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the district court concluding that a secondary beneficiary was entitled to property in a trust created by Paul and decedent Chari Colman, Paul's ex-wife, holding that the plain…
Date: April 2, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 18
Docket Number: 76972
Justia Opinion Summary: In this medical malpractice case, the Supreme Court held that although Nev. Rev. Stat. 41A.100(1) generally applies only to objects left in a patient's body during the at-issue surgery, it can also apply in cases where,…
Date: April 2, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 17
Docket Number: 77385
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court held that a plaintiff relying on Nev. Rev. Stat. 41A.100's rebuttable presumption for a prima facie case of negligence need not provide expert testimony to survive a defendant's summary judgment motion…
Date: April 2, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 15
Docket Number: 77617
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court concluding that Respondent was entitled to reasonable attorney fees and costs under Nev. Rev. Stat. 239.011(2), holding that the requesting party prevails for…
Date: April 2, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 16
Docket Number: 78054
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of U.S. Bank seeking to foreclose on a defaulted loan, holding that because U.S. Bank presented evidence to meet its burden…
Date: March 26, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 10
Docket Number: 76457
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the district court dismissing Appellant's quiet title action under Nev. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(5), holding that the limitations period in Nev. Rev. Stat. 11.080 does not run against…
Date: March 26, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 11
Docket Number: 76639
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the district court granting the Love Ranch's petition for a writ of mandamus and compelling the Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation (DETR) to comply with the Love…
Date: March 26, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 12
Docket Number: 79079
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted in part Petitioner's writ petition requesting that the Supreme Court order the district court to grant his motion to dismiss four counts for which he was indicted based on the grand jury's lack…
Date: March 5, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 9
Docket Numbers: 73838, 75834
Justia Opinion Summary: In this defamation action, the Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court's orders granting the anti-SLAPP special motions to dismiss filed by Steve Sanson and Louis Schneider, holding that…
Date: March 5, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 8
Docket Number: 76017
Justia Opinion Summary: In this homeowners' association (HOA) lien foreclosure dispute between the holder of the first deed of trust on the property and the assignee of the buyer at the lien foreclosure sale the Supreme Court held that while a…
Date: February 27, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 4
Docket Number: 74449
Justia Opinion Summary: In this defamation action, the Supreme Court reversed the order of the district court denying Defendant's anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss, holding that the district court erred in finding that Defendant failed to satisfy…
Date: February 27, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 5
Docket Number: 74604
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the district court's award of attorney fees and costs to the Las Vegas Review-Journal (LVRJ), which had petitioned the district court to compel production of unreacted juvenile autopsy reports…
Date: February 27, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 6
Docket Number: 75603
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court finding that a deed of trust beneficiary's agent was excused from making a formal tender, such that under Bank of America, N.A. v. SFR Investments Pool 1,…
Date: February 27, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 7
Docket Number: 78301
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted the petition for writ of mandamus sought by Petitioners, holding that Petitioners were entitled to judgment as a matter of law on the complaint filed by the State Commissioner of Insurance…
Date: February 20, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 3
Docket Number: 77511
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed in part the district court's order denying a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking body cam footage and other related records regarding juveniles and then-State Senator Aaron Ford's…
Date: January 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 1
Docket Number: 53159
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's judgment of conviction and amended judgment of conviction convicting Defendant of first-degree murder and other crimes and denying Defendant's motion for a new trial,…
Date: January 30, 2020
Citation: 136 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 2
Docket Number: 74912
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal considering the preclusive effect of a qualified immunity decision where the federal district court's judgment addressed both prongs of the qualified immunity inquiry but the federal court of appeals…
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