Nevada Supreme Court, 2005

The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for Safeway and Action Cleaning. It held that the employee’s workplace assaults arose out of and in the course of her employment, making the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act her exclusive remedy, and that Action Cleaning was not liable because the assaults were…

The court affirmed Crawford’s first-degree murder conviction after rejecting his challenges to the burglary instruction, the proposed burglary-unanimity instruction, diminished-capacity instructions, and limits on cross-examination.

The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Lader’s post-conviction claims. It held that the DUI enhancement statute and habitual-criminal statute are compatible, so counsel was not ineffective for failing to argue that prior felony DUI convictions could not support both the felony DUI conviction and…

The court held that the essential terms of a release are material terms of a settlement agreement and must be agreed upon for the settlement to be enforceable. Because the parties agreed to a general release of all claims and the authorized attorney accepted the settlement in writing, the later refusal to sign the…