Case library
Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
849 decisions, organized by topic. Practitioner summaries with key holdings, posture, disposition, and the statutes cited - up front, where you need them. Every summary links to the full opinion.
3 cases · Court Access & Closure - Public and press access to, and closure/sealing of, family-court proceedings - Falconi and its progeny.
NESTER VS. DIST. CT. (GAMBLE)
Jan 30, 2025141 Nev. Adv. Op. 4 (2025) · 88597 · Nevada Supreme Court
Petition granted.Standard of review. Mandamus is available to compel performance of a legally required act or to control an arbitrary or capricious exercise of discretion. IGT v. Second Jud. Dist. Ct., 124 Nev. 193, 197, 179 P.3d 556,…
OUR NEV. JUDGES, INC. VS. DIST. CT. (MINTER)
Sep 12, 202424-33618 · 88412 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Petition granted. The court directed issuance of a writ of mandamus instructing the district court to grant Our Nevada Judges' March 4, 2024, Limited Motion to Unseal.The court reviewed the petition under the familiar mandamus standard: mandamus issues to compel performance of a legal duty or to correct a manifest abuse of discretion or arbitrary or capricious action where no other…
FALCONI VS. DIST. CT. (MINTER)
Feb 15, 2024140 Nev. Adv. Op. 8, 543 P.3d 92 (2024) · 85195 · Nevada Supreme Court
Petition granted.The court exercised its discretion to entertain an original writ petition under NRS 34.160 and NRS 34.170, citing Gardner v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 133 Nev. 730, 405 P.3d 651 (2017); Int'l Game Tech., Inc. v. Second…
Every summary is independently verified against the source opinion; summaries are informational research aids, not legal advice, and no substitute for reading the decision. Topic groupings are derived automatically from each case’s category tag and cited statutes; a case may appear under two topics.