LAS VEGAS SANDS v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST. CT.

No. 62944.

331 P.3d 876 (2014)

LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP., A Nevada Corporation; and Sands China Ltd., A Cayman Islands Corporation, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the STATE of Nevada, in and for the COUNTY OF CLARK; and the Honorable Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez, District Judge, Respondents, and Steven C. Jacobs, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

August 7, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Law Group and Steve L. Morris and Rosa Solis-Rainey , Las Vegas; Kemp, Jones & Coulthard, LLP, and J. Randall Jones and Mark M. Jones , Las Vegas; Holland & Hart LLP and J. Stephen Peek and Robert J. Cassity , Las Vegas, for Petitioners.

Pisanelli Bice PLLC and Todd L. Bice , James J. Pisanelli , and Debra L. Spinelli , Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.


OPINION

By the Court, GIBBONS, C.J.:

In this opinion, we consider whether a Nevada district court may properly issue a discovery order that compels a litigant to violate a foreign international privacy statute. We conclude that the mere existence of an applicable foreign international privacy statute does not itself preclude Nevada district courts from ordering foreign parties to comply with Nevada discovery rules. Thus, civil litigants may not utilize...

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