Combined Case Information: 68310
Short Caption:	OKADA VS. DIST. C T. (WYNN RESORTS, LTD.)	Court:	Supreme Court
		Related Case(s):	61966, 68439, 70050, 70452, 71432, 71638, 73641, 73641-COA, 73949, 74063, 74184, 74326, 74500, 74519, 74582, 74591, 75852
Lower Court Case(s):	Clark Co. - Eighth Judicial District - A656710	Classification:	Original Proceeding - Civil - Mandamus/Prohibition
Disqualifications:	Parraguirre, Pickering	Case Status:	Notice in Lieu of Remittitur Issued/Case Closed
Replacement:	District Judge Wilson for Justice Parraguirre<br/>District Judge Dobrescu for Justice Pickering	Panel Assigned:	En Banc
To SP/Judge:		SP Status:
Oral Argument:	09/01/2015 at 11:30 AM	Oral Argument Location:	Carson City
Submission Date:	09/01/2015	How Submitted:	After Oral Argument

+ Party Information
Role	Party Name	Represented By
Petitioner	Kazuo Okada	Brian G. Anderson (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) Robert J. Cassity (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) Benjamin B. Klubes (BuckleySandler LLP) David S. Krakoff (BuckleySandler LLP) Bryce K Kunimoto (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) Adam Miller (BuckleySandler LLP) J. Stephen Peek (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) Joseph J. Reilly (BuckleySandler LLP)
Real Party in Interest	Elaine P. Wynn	William R. Urga (Jolley Urga Woodbury Holthus)
Real Party in Interest	Stephen A. Wynn	Donald J. Campbell (Campbell & Williams) J. Colby Williams (Campbell & Williams)
Real Party in Interest	Wynn Resorts, Limited	Todd L. Bice (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC) James J. Pisanelli (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC) Paul K. Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) Robert L. Shapiro (Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro, LLC/Los Angeles) Debra L. Spinelli (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC) Bradley R. Wilson (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
Respondent	Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez
Respondent	The Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for the County of Clark

Docket Entries
Date	Type	Description	Pending?	Document
06/29/2015	Filing Fee	Filing fee paid. E-Payment $250.00 from J. Stephen Peek.
06/29/2015	Petition/Writ	Filed Petition for Writ of Mandamus or Prohibition.		15-19660
06/29/2015	Motion	Filed Petitioner Kazuo Okada's Motion to File Under Seal Volume III of Appendix to His Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus.		15-19668
06/29/2015	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Kazuo Okada's Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Vol I of III (APP0001-0225).		15-19670
06/29/2015	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Kazuo Okada's Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Vol II of III (APP0226-0374).		15-19671
07/01/2015	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Staying Deposition and Directing Answer. Real Party in Interest's Answer due: 20 days. Petitioner's Reply (if any) due: 11 days from service of answer. We further stay the deposition of petitioner pending our resolution of this petition. fn1[This stay is only as to the deposition of petitioner and does not affect any other proceedings in the case.]		15-20107
07/07/2015	Order/Clerk's	Filed Order Scheduling Oral Argument. Oral Argument is hereby scheduled before the en banc court on September 1, 2015, at the hour of 11:30 a.m., in Carson City. The argument shall be limited to 30 minutes.		15-20597
07/10/2015	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Granting Motion to Seal. The clerk of this court shall file Volume III of the appendix, received on June 30, 2015, under seal.		15-21026
07/10/2015	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Kazuo Okada's Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Vol. III of III. (Under Seal). (FILED UNDER SEAL PER ORDER 7/10/15).
07/21/2015	Motion	Filed Stipulation to Permit Elaine Wynn to File an Answering Brief as a Real Party in Interest.		15-22004
07/22/2015	Petition/Writ	Filed Wynn Resort's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus.		15-22127
07/22/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix in Support of Real Party in Interest Wynn Resorts, Limited's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Volume I.		15-22128
07/22/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix in Support of Real Party in Interest Wynn Resorts, Limited's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Volume II.		15-22129
07/22/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix in Support of Real Party in Interest Wynn Resorts, Limited's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Volume III.		15-22131
07/22/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix in Support of Real Party in Interest Wynn Resorts, Limited's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Volume IV.		15-22132
07/22/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix in Support of Real Party in Interest Wynn Resorts, Limited's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Volume V.		15-22133
07/22/2015	Motion	Filed Wynn Resorts, Limited's Motion to File Volume VI of its Supplemental Appendix Under Seal.		15-22134
07/22/2015	Notice/Incoming	Filed Notice of Appearance (J. Colby Williams as counsel for Stephen Wynn).		15-22246
07/27/2015	Order/Procedural	Filed Order. The clerk of this court shall add Elaine Wynn and Stephen Wynn as real parties in interest in this matter and amend the caption to conform to the caption in this order. The clerk shall file Elaine Wynn's answer to writ petition, supplemental appendix, and Stephen Wynn's joinder to that answer received on July 21 and 22, 2015. Wynn Resorts, Ltd. shall submit volume VI of its supplemental appendix for filing immediately; upon receipt, the clerk of this court shall file this volume under seal.		15-22640
07/27/2015	Petition/Writ	Filed Answer to Petition for Writ - Answering Brief of Elaine P. Wynn to Kazuo Okada's Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus.		15-22641
07/27/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix to Answering Brief of Elaine P. Wynn to Kazuo Okada's Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Vol. I.		15-22642
07/27/2015	Notice/Incoming	Filed Real Party in Interest Stephen A. Wynn's Joinder in Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus.		15-22643
07/27/2015	Appendix	Filed Supplemental Appendix in Support of Real Party in Interest Wynn Resorts, Limited's Answer to Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus Volume VI (SEALED).
07/28/2015	Notice/Incoming	Filed Notice Of Suggestion Of Recusal.		15-22752
07/30/2015	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Notice Scheduling Oral Argument. Argument is scheduled for Tuesday, September 1, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. for 30 minutes in Carson City.		15-23084
08/04/2015	Notice/Incoming	Filed Petitioner Kazuo Okada's Objection to Wynn Resorts, Limited's Notice of Suggestion of Recusal.		15-23435
08/04/2015	Petition/Writ	Filed Kazuo Okada's Reply In Support of Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus.		15-23438
08/04/2015	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Kazuo Okada's Reply in Support of Petition For Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus.		15-23439
08/06/2015	Motion	Filed Response to Objection to Suggestion of Recusal (Reply to Response).		15-23678
08/14/2015	Order/Procedural	Filed Voluntary Recusal. Associate Justice Kristina Pickering hereby recuses herself from this appeal.		15-24561
08/14/2015	Order/Procedural	Filed Voluntary Recusal. Associate Justice Ron D. Parraguirre hereby rucuses himself from this appeal.		15-24562
08/18/2015	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Oral Argument Reminder Notice.		15-24949
08/19/2015	Order/Incoming	Filed Executive Order. Judge James E. Wilson, Jr., appointed to sit in the place of Justice Ron Parraguirre.		15-25119
08/19/2015	Order/Incoming	Filed Executive Order. Judge Jerry Polaha appointed to sit in the place of Justice Kristina Pickering.		15-25120
08/27/2015	Order/Incoming	Filed Executive Order. Judge Dobrescu appointed to sit in the place of Judge Polaha for Justice Pickering.		15-26097
08/28/2015	Notice/Incoming	Filed Notice of Filing Orders Granting Motions to Associate Counsel, David S. Krakoff, Esq., Benjamin B. Klubes, Esq., Joseph J. Reilly, Esq., and Adam Miller, Esq Pursuant to NRAP 46(a)(3)		15-26124
09/01/2015	Case Status Update	Oral argument held this day. Case submitted for decision before the En Banc Court.
09/09/2015	Order/Dispositional	Filed Order Denying Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus and Vacating Stay. "We conclude that our extraordinary intervention is unwarranted, and we deny petitioner's request for writ relief." We vacate the stay imposed by our July 1, 2015, order. But because this writ petition raises important legal issues in need of clarification, an opinion in this matter will be forthcoming. fn1[1The Honorable James E. Wilson, Jr., District Judge in the First Judicial District Court, and the Honorable Steve L. Dobrescu, District Judge in the Seventh Judicial District Court, were designated by the Governor to sit in place of the Honorable Ron Parraguirre, Justice, and the Honorable Kristina Pickering, Justice, who voluntarily recused themselves from participation in the decision of this matter.] fn2[The clerk of this court is directed to stay issuance of the notice in lieu of remittitur pending our disposition of this matter by published opinion.]		15-27290
10/15/2015	Opinion/Non-Dispositional	Filed Authored Opinion. "Petition denied." Fn1[The Honorable James E. Wilson, Jr., District Judge in the First Judicial District Court, and the Honorable Steve L. Dobrescu, District Judge in the Seventh Judicial District Court, were designated by the Governor to sit in place of the Honorable Ron Parraguirre, Justice, and the Honorable Kristina Pickeirng, Justice, who voluntarily recused themselves from participation in the decision of this matter.] Before the Court En Banc. Author: Hardesty, C.J. Majority: Hardesty/Douglas/Cherry/Saitta/Gibbons/Wilson/Dobrescu. 131 Nev. Adv. Opn. No. 83. EN BANC		15-31345
11/09/2015	Remittitur	Issued Notice in Lieu of Remittitur.		15-34115
11/09/2015	Case Status Update	Notice in Lieu of Remittitur Issued/Case Closed.