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Summary Of Williams V. Williams, 120 Nev. Adv. Op. 64, Justen Ericksen
Summary Of Williams V. Williams, 120 Nev. Adv. Op. 64, Justen Ericksen
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Husband appealed the decision of the district court granting annulment and awarding wife one-half of jointly held property and spousal support.
Summary Of Zhang V. Eighth Judicial Dist. Ct., 120 Nev. Adv. Rep. 104, Christopher Carson
Summary Of Zhang V. Eighth Judicial Dist. Ct., 120 Nev. Adv. Rep. 104, Christopher Carson
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
On February 1, 2004, Lanlin Zhang contracted to buy former realtor Frank Sorichetti’s Las Vegas home for $532,500. On February 3, 2004 Sorichetti told Zhang that he was terminating the sale “to stay in the home a little longer.” Sorichetti then stated that he would sell Zhang the home if she paid more money. Zhang agreed and another contract was drafted that same day reciting a sales price of $578,000. On February 16, 2004, Sorichetti notified Zhang that a murder had occurred in the home several years earlier, and that Zhang could cancel the sales contract if she desired. Subsequently, …
Summary Of State V. Bennett, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 63, Shane Jasmine Young
Summary Of State V. Bennett, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 63, Shane Jasmine Young
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal and cross-appeal from a district court order granting in part and denying in part Defendant’s post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a capital case.
Summary Of Barry V. Lindner, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 45, Matt Wagner
Summary Of Barry V. Lindner, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 45, Matt Wagner
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
No abstract provided.
Summary Of Seres V. Lerner, 120 Nev. Adv. Op. 95, Sally L. Galati
Summary Of Seres V. Lerner, 120 Nev. Adv. Op. 95, Sally L. Galati
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The sister of a manslaughter victim, on her mother’s behalf, brought an action against the felon, who wrote a book regarding the killing of the victim, seeking to recover the felon’s book proceeds under the Nevada “Son of Sam” law. The district court found the applicable Nevada statute to be unconstitutional and dismissed the plaintiff’s action. Plaintiff appealed.
Summary Of Smith V. State, 120 Nev. Adv. Op. 96, Sally L. Galati
Summary Of Smith V. State, 120 Nev. Adv. Op. 96, Sally L. Galati
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Defendant appealed from a judgment of conviction for one count of burglary following a jury verdict. Defendant’s primary contention was that the district court erred in refusing his proffered jury instruction on the lesser crime of trespass.
Summary Of Dayside Inc. V. District Court, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 48, Nevada Law Journal
Summary Of Dayside Inc. V. District Court, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 48, Nevada Law Journal
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
General contractor’s petition for writ of mandamus or certiorari against partial summary judgment granted by the First Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, dismissing mechanic’s lien against property owner.
Summary Of Maki V. Chong, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 46, Hilary Barrett
Summary Of Maki V. Chong, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 46, Hilary Barrett
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order applying the statutory homestead exemption to a debtor’s real property.
Summary Of Camacho V. State, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 47, Hilary Barrett
Summary Of Camacho V. State, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 47, Hilary Barrett
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered after a guilty plea.
Summary Of Dayside Inc. V. District Court, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 48, Nevada Law Journal
Summary Of Dayside Inc. V. District Court, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 48, Nevada Law Journal
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
General contractor’s petition for writ of mandamus or certiorari against partial summary judgment granted by the First Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, dismissing mechanic’s lien against property owner.
Summary Of Keife V. Logan, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 41, James Davis
Summary Of Keife V. Logan, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 41, James Davis
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from an order of the Second Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, finding that Defendant and underlying landowner was the rightful owner of a former railroad right-of-way under 43 U.S.C.S. §912, because the underlying landowner had purchased the underlying land and right-of-way from the railroad, which had been granted the right-of-way by the United States.
Summary Of Schneider V. County Of Elko, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 43, Hilary Barrett
Summary Of Schneider V. County Of Elko, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 43, Hilary Barrett
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order dismissing a property owner’s complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
Summary Of Evans V. Samuels, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 42, Hilary Barrett
Summary Of Evans V. Samuels, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 42, Hilary Barrett
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order granting summary judgment in a quiet title action.
Summary Of State V. Bayard, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 29, Melanie Koep
Summary Of State V. Bayard, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 29, Melanie Koep
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Expedited appeal from an order of the Second Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, granting a motion to suppress evidence of narcotics obtained by searching defendant after arrest for two minor traffic violations.-flas
Summary Of Buchanan V. State, Akke Levin
Summary Of Buchanan V. State, Akke Levin
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a judgment by the Second Judicial District Court of Washoe County, convicting Denise Dianna Buchanan of two counts of first-degree murder.
Summary Of Edington V. Edington, 119 Nev. Adv. Rep. 62, Z. Ryan Pahnke
Summary Of Edington V. Edington, 119 Nev. Adv. Rep. 62, Z. Ryan Pahnke
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order denying a motion to modify a divorce decree and denying a motion for attorney fees.
Summary Of Harris Assoc. V. Clark County Sch. Dist., Beth Rosenblum
Summary Of Harris Assoc. V. Clark County Sch. Dist., Beth Rosenblum
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a judgment by the Eighth Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, denying the appellant’s motion to compel arbitration.
Summary Of Huntington V. Mila, Incorporated, Amy A. Johnson
Summary Of Huntington V. Mila, Incorporated, Amy A. Johnson
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from an Eighth Judicial District Court, Las Vegas Nevada order certified as final under NRCP 54(b) granting Respondent Mila’s motion for partial summary judgment to dismiss Appellant Huntington’s third party complaint.
Summary Of Hathaway V. State, Melanie Koep
Summary Of Hathaway V. State, Melanie Koep
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Proper person appeal from an order of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Honorable John S. McGroarty, denying appellant’s post-conviction petition for writ of habeas corpus.
Summary Of Mack V. State, Kristen L. Gallagher
Summary Of Mack V. State, Kristen L. Gallagher
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
A neighbor found Betty May murdered in her room at a boarding house. An autopsy determined that May died by strangulation and suffered a traumatic sexual penetration just prior to her death. Semen and blood samples were taken from May’s body and clothing at the time of her death, and after twelve years passed, a detective ordered DNA testing of the evidence. Defendant Daryl Linnie Mack was charged with the first-degree murder of Betty May. Law enforcement obtained a blood and saliva sample from Mack at two different times during the investigation. Both the semen and the blood stains matched …
Summary Of Meridian Gold Co. V. State Ex Rel Dep’T Of Tax., Beth Rosenblum
Summary Of Meridian Gold Co. V. State Ex Rel Dep’T Of Tax., Beth Rosenblum
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from judgment of the Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County, affirming a Nevada Department of Taxation tax deficiency determination.
Summary Of Sellers V. Fourth Judicial Dist. Ct., Nevada Law Journal
Summary Of Sellers V. Fourth Judicial Dist. Ct., Nevada Law Journal
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
The real party in interest Richard Matthews brought an action for unpaid attorney’s fees against the petitioner Dean Sellers in Elko, Nevada’s Justice Court. Both Matthews, an attorney, and Sellers, a non-attorney, represented themselves. The court entered judgment for Matthews. The award included Matthews’ principle claim of $5,075.00, pre-judgment interest, costs of $230.001 and attorney’s fees of $1,500.002. Sellers unsuccessfully appealed to the District Court.3 Subsequently, Sellers filed a proper person petition for a writ of certiorari in the Nevada Supreme Court. The petition challenged the justice court’s judgment awarding damages, pre-judgment interest, costs and attorney fees. The court granted …
Summary Of State V. Gameros-Perez, Mike Feliciano
Summary Of State V. Gameros-Perez, Mike Feliciano
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Jose Simon Gameros-Perez and Isidro Benitez-Medina, Respondents, were believed to be in possession of illegal narcotics and paraphernalia in their apartment. The Washoe County Sheriff telephonically applied for and obtained a warrant to search the respondents’ apartment pursuant to NRS 179.045(2). The magistrate issued the warrant based on sworn oral statements that were later transcribed. The warrant contained a statement that probable cause existed to believe the respondents were in possession of illegal narcotics and paraphernalia. It did not, however, contain an actual recitation of the probable cause for the search. Upon execution of the warrant, heroin was found in …
Summary Of Vermef V. Boulder City, 119 Nev. Adv. Rep. 60, Justen Ericksen
Summary Of Vermef V. Boulder City, 119 Nev. Adv. Rep. 60, Justen Ericksen
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order granting summary judgment in favor of the city after a homeowner filed a claim alleging faulty construction of a drainage channel was the proximate cause of flood damage to his house.
Summary Of West V. State, Amanda Yen
Summary Of West V. State, Amanda Yen
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
On February 5, 2001, the general manager of Canyon Gate Mini Storage discovered the decomposing body of Christine Smith in the storage unit owned by Smith and her daughter, appellant Brookey Lee West. Smith’s body was sealed in a garbage can wrapped with duct tape, garbage bags and cellophane wrap. A white plastic bag, knotted at the back of her head, covered Smith’s nose and mouth. Upon searching West’s apartment, police discovered Smith’s bank statements. The police determined that there were numerous ATM withdrawals on Smith’s bank account after February 1998, when Smith was last seen alive. West was charged …
Summary Of Meyer V. State, 119 Nev. Adv. Rep. 61, Timothy W. Roehrs
Summary Of Meyer V. State, 119 Nev. Adv. Rep. 61, Timothy W. Roehrs
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
“The right to trial by jury, if it is to mean anything, must mean the right to a fair and impartial jury. A litigant is therefore entitled to a jury composed of 12 impartial jurors; …a party has the right to have that decision, whether for or against him, based on the honest deliberations of 12 such individuals.”2 The legitimacy of our justice system hinges on the fact that the results of trials, as dictated by a jury of one’s peers, remain free from the taint of extrinsic evidence and are grounded solely on the evidence presented by the parties …
Summary Of Houston V. Bank Of America Federal Savings Bank, Amy A. Johnson
Summary Of Houston V. Bank Of America Federal Savings Bank, Amy A. Johnson
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appellants Edward R. Houston and Regina Houston paid David Boone $740,000 for investment services, which Boone converted to his own use. In May 1998, Boone and his wife Donna divorced and Boone quitclaimed real property to Donna. Norwest Mortgage, Respondent Bank of America’s predecessor, held a deed of trust on the real property for $342,000. That same month, the Houstons filed a complaint against Boone to recover their $740,000. The Houstons filed a notice of lis pendens in the Clark County Recorder’s Office on June 1, 1998 and filed an ex parte motion with the district court directing the issuance …
Summary Of In The Matter Of T.R. V. Nevada Div. Of Child And Family Services, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. 67, Kathleen Hamers
Summary Of In The Matter Of T.R. V. Nevada Div. Of Child And Family Services, 119 Nev. Adv. Op. 67, Kathleen Hamers
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
T.R., a fourteen-year-old boy at the time of the incident, was charged with sodomy against a four-year-old boy, forcing the boy to orally copulate him, and orally copulating the boy. An evidentiary hearing was conducted by a district court hearing master who concluded that there was clear and convincing evidence T.R. sodomized the four-year-old boy, and that he forced the four-year-old boy to orally copulate him. The district court agreed with the hearing master, entered an order with the hearing master’s findings, and dismissed the remaining charge. T.R. moved for a rehearing based on inadmissible and unreliable hearsay statements, which …
Summary Of John V. Douglas County Sch. Dist., 125 Nev. Adv. Op. 55, Derrick Harris
Summary Of John V. Douglas County Sch. Dist., 125 Nev. Adv. Op. 55, Derrick Harris
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a Ninth Judicial District Court order granting a special motion to dismiss under Nevada’s anti-SLAPP statute, in an employment matter.
Summary Of Nittinger V. Holman, Cami Perkins
Summary Of Nittinger V. Holman, Cami Perkins
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Respondents, Dedric Holman and Christina Edwards, were gambling at the Gold Coast Hotel when a physical confrontation arose between John Nittinger, a security guard, and Holman. When Holman tried to run, security officers pursued him and held him to the ground. According to Holman’s testimony, the guards made racial slurs, punched, kicked and beat him. The security shift supervisor was present during part of the incident. The district court instructed the jury that it could find the Gold Coast liable for punitive damages if a “managerial agent” authorized or ratified the guards’ conduct. The jury awarded respondents $198,000 in compensatory …