Nevada Supreme Court issues 6 decisions
The final opinions for the year have been published by the Nevada Supreme Court. Six opinions were published, one of which is a criminal case.
In Hidalgo v. District Court, the Nevada Supreme Court, sitting en banc, grants an original petition for a writ of mandamus challenging the district court's order denying petitioners' motion to strike the State's notice of intent to seek the death penalty. (This was my case, so a little "yippee" is in order). The Court concludes that solicitation to commit murder is not a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person of another within the meaning of NRS 200.033(2)(b) and that the State's notice of intent to seek the death penalty did not satisfy the requirements of SCR 250(4)(c). Justice Maupin dissented in part.
Opinions in civil cases issued today are:
Hsu v. County of Clark - concerning equitable exceptions to the law of the case doctrine
ASAP Storage, Inc. v. City of Sparks -summary judgment in a governmental takings case
Johanson v. District Court - granting a petition for a writ of mandamus which challenged a district court order sealing an entire case file and restricting all communications regarding an underlying divorce proceedings.
Awada v. Shuffle Master, Inc. - appeal from a district court judgment in a contract action
SFPP, L.P. v. District Court - granting a petition which challenged the district court's jurisdiction to conduct further proceedings in a district court case that was dismissed.
Comments
Pathetic. The Nevada Supreme Court only issued 55 opinions. That averages out to LESS than one opinion a week. I think the lesson to be learned here is that quantity of opinions is more desirable rather than "quality". As I stated in many posts...the NV Supreme Court has extremely stringent requirements for publishing an opinion. As a result...only a measly 55 published opionions. If the NV Supreme Court chooses to be so selective...it should give the public access to its unpublished opinions. Some states appellate courts publish the same number of opinions in just a few weeks. The NV Supreme Court has a duty to establish the law and case law in this state. 55 opinions will not get it done. This is just a travesty. And the NV Supreme Court is making so much noise about an intermediate appellate court? The extremely low number of published opinions certainly would not garner much public support for an intermediate court....
I have said a lot in this post...and I will keep on making a lot of noise about this issue. I'm sick and tired of the extremely low number of published opinions in this state. THis state must rank near the bottom in terms of the number of published opinions.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 27, 2007 11:21 AM