LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - There is no “suicide rule” in Nevada protecting doctors against malpractice suits by survivors of patients who killed themselves, the state’s highest court ruled.
A 20% cap on lawyer contingency fees in Nevada is supported by Uber but few business organizations, perhaps reflecting concern that such measures can end up doing more harm than good.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - A Nevada statute banning the sale of unfinished gun parts that can be assembled into untraceable “ghost guns” is constitutional, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, even as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a similar ban at the federal level.
LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - The Associated Press was exercising its First Amendment rights to report on a decades-old rape allegation against casino mogul Steve Wynn even though the reporter told a colleague one of the complaints “is crazy,” the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, affirming the power of news organizations to end lawsuits under the state anti-SLAPP statute.
LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - A law protecting property owners against lawsuits stemming from “recreational activities” shields a Nevada city from a lawsuit filed by a woman who tripped over the edge of a protective mat under a children’s slide and broke her leg in multiple places.
LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - A woman who blackmailed her former boss and lover into handing over $12 million worth of Bitcoin and valuables, including a Ferrari automobile, is subject to a multimillion-dollar default judgment after failing to show up in court, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - A hospital seeking to overturn a $49 million wrongful-death judgment lost its challenge to how two judges were appointed to the Nevada Supreme Court to replace justices who had to recuse themselves.
LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - Medical-malpractice lawyers can't rely on the testimony of a nurse when arguing doctors failed their client, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - The family of a man who died riding an ATV during downtime on a work trip is entitled to Workers' Compensation benefits.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - It is commonplace for personal-injury plaintiffs to sign over the proceeds of their lawsuits to third parties, but “public policy” prohibits the same practice in legal malpractice suits, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who admits she never smoked an R.J. Reynolds cigarette nevertheless can sue the company for consumer fraud, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, rejecting the tobacco company’s argument her claim should have been dismissed.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) – A volunteer from the crowd who tried to pull his own trick on magician David Copperfield had his secrets revealed.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - An insurance company that took surveillance videos of a woman before she filed a lawsuit over a car accident must turn them over to plaintiff lawyers, a Nevada appeals court ruled, although it sent back to the trial court the question of whether a third video taken after the plaintiff sued must be shared with the other side.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) – The Nevada Supreme Court has backed the firearms industry in wrongful death litigation – even when plaintiffs plausibly allege their products were illegal.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - A plaintiff who suffered neck injuries when a construction company forklift punched through the window of his car can collect millions of dollars in attorney fees on top of a $5.9 million jury verdict, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled, in a decision also enforcing severe penalties on the defendant for telling jurors it was bankrupt.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - The Nevada Supreme Court granted an opioid manufacturer’s request to halt the City of Reno’s lawsuit against it, saying state law may limit the power of cities to sue companies that are subject to state or federal regulation.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) - Nevada’s highest court gave judges the power to extend the state’s two-year statute of limitations in tort lawsuits, but rejected the appeal of a woman who sued her alleged attacker more than two years after she reported the sexual assault to police.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) – Citing a sexual assault complaint that was not pursued by authorities in its reporting has The Associated Press fighting a defamation lawsuit by hotel magnate Steve Wynn.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) – A gambler’s bet that he could take down Nevada’s Anti-SLAPP law is a loser, as the Nevada Supreme Court ruled against him on July 30.
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