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Archives for March 2011

Computation Of Damages

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...]

Short Stack ? ? ?

No we're not talking about pancakes.  Instead, we are talking about when and how cases filed in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County Nevada make it to trial.  Please allow me to explain. Most of the counties in Nevada don’t have a problem getting cases to trial.  Normally, in those counties, when a trial is set, that is the date that the trial proceeds.  Clark County, the county in which Las Vegas is located, is the exception to the rule. The population boom in Clark County … [Read more...]