In March, 2011, the Nevada Law Blogs described the advantages of consistent enforcement of the discovery rules that require the Plaintiff to disclose and compute their damages. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a)(1)(A)(iii) and Nev. R. Civ. P. 16.1(a)(1)(D). HERE. Since that time, a number of courts in Nevada have sanctioned Plaintiffs for untimely disclosure of damages. In the case of Shakespear v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. 2:12-cv-01064-MMD-PAL, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100644 (D. Nev. July 8, 2013), … [Read more...]
Computation Of Damages
March 29, 2011 by
Nevada’s Rule of Civil Procedure 16.1(a)(1)(C) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1)(A)(iii) require the claimant to serve a “computation of any category of damages claimed by the disclosing party”. This Computation of Damages is supposed to be served with the initial disclosures and must be provided “without awaiting a discovery request.” In the case of Design Strategy, Inc. v. Davis, 469 F3d 284 (2d Cir. 2006), the court had to decide whether a Plaintiff, who had failed to disclose … [Read more...]
