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Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Labor and Employment Law

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Summary Of Ozawa V. Vision Airlines, Inc., 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 16, Nick Portz Oct 2009

Summary Of Ozawa V. Vision Airlines, Inc., 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 16, Nick Portz

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Consolidated appeals considering two issues: (1) whether to recognize a new exception to the at-will employment doctrine and to allow a claim for tortious discharge related to an employee’s termination for attempting to organize his fellow employees; and (2) whether the district court abused its discretion in its resolution of respondents’ request for attorney fees and costs.


Summary Of Hd Supply Facilities Maint. V. Bymoen, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 20, Casey G. Perkins Jun 2009

Summary Of Hd Supply Facilities Maint. V. Bymoen, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 20, Casey G. Perkins

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Certified questions from the United States District Court, District of Nevada, arising from a action by HD Supply Facilities Maint., Ltd. (“HDS”), seeking enforcement of restrictive employment covenants against its former employee, Leif Bymoen (“Bymoen”) and Bymoen’s current employer AZ Partsmaster, Inc. (“AZP”). The questions each relate to whether the Nevada rule, set forth by the Nevada Supreme Court in Traffic Control Servs. v. United Rentals,2 prohibiting the assignment of noncompetition covenants in asset purchase transactions “applies when a successor corporation acquires covenants of noncompetition, nonsolicitation, or confidentiality as a result of a merger.”