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Case Information: 63444
Short Caption:	LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP. VS. DIST. CT. (JACOBS)	Court:	Supreme Court
		Related Case(s):	58294, 58740, 59265, 62489, 62944, 67576, 68265, 68275, 68309, 69090, 69802
Lower Court Case(s):	Clark Co. - Eighth Judicial District - A627691	Classification:	Original Proceeding - Civil - Prohibition
Disqualifications:	Parraguirre, Pickering	Case Status:	Notice in Lieu of Remittitur Issued/Case Closed
Replacement:	None for Justice Parraguirre<br/>None for Justice Pickering	Panel Assigned:	En Banc
To SP/Judge:		SP Status:
Oral Argument:	03/03/2014 at 2:00 PM	Oral Argument Location:	Regional Justice Center
Submission Date:	03/03/2014	How Submitted:	After Oral Argument

+ Party Information
Role	Party Name	Represented By
Petitioner	Las Vegas Sands Corporation	Robert J. Cassity (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) J. Randall Jones (Kemp Jones, LLP) Mark M. Jones (Kemp Jones, LLP) Steve L. Morris (Morris Law Group) J. Stephen Peek (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) Rosa Solis-Rainey (Morris Law Group)
Petitioner	Sands China Ltd.	Robert J. Cassity (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) J. Randall Jones (Kemp Jones, LLP) Mark M. Jones (Kemp Jones, LLP) Steve L. Morris (Morris Law Group) J. Stephen Peek (Holland & Hart LLP/Las Vegas) Rosa Solis-Rainey (Morris Law Group)
Real Party in Interest	Steven C. Jacobs	Eric T. Aldrian (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC) Todd L. Bice (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC) James J. Pisanelli (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC) Debra L. Spinelli (Pisanelli Bice, PLLC)
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
06/21/2013	Filing Fee	E-Payment $250.00 from Steve L. Morris.
06/21/2013	Petition/Writ	Filed Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents.		13-18373
06/21/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 1 of 24.		13-18381
06/21/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 2 of 24.		13-18385
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 3 of 24.		13-18396
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 4 of 24.		13-18397
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 5 of 24.		13-18405
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 6 of 24.		13-18409
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 7 of 24.		13-18410
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 8 of 24.		13-18413
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 9 of 24.		13-18414
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 10 of 24.		13-18415
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 11 of 24.		13-18416
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 12 of 24.		13-18417
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 13 of 24.		13-18418
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 14 of 24.		13-18429
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 15 of 24.		13-18430
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 16 of 24.		13-18431
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 17 of 24.		13-18435
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 18 of 24.		13-18437
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 19 of 24.		13-18438
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 20 of 24.		13-18440
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 21 of 24.		13-18443
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 22 of 24.		13-18444
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 23 of 24.		13-18445
06/24/2013	Appendix	Filed Appendix to Petition for Writ - Volume 24 of 24.		13-18446
06/24/2013	Other	Chief Justice Kristina Pickering disqualified from participation in this matter. Disqualification Reason: Law Firms.
06/24/2013	Other	Justice Ron Parraguirre disqualified from participation in this matter. Disqualification Reason: Law Firms.
06/28/2013	Motion	Filed Emergency Motion Under NRAP 27(e) to Stay the District Court's June 19, 2013 Order Pending Decision on Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents. Relief requested by July 5, 2013.		13-19033
06/28/2013	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Directing Answer and Granting Temporary Stay. Real party in interest's answer to writ petition due: 30 days. Petitioners: 15 days to file any reply. We temporarily stay the June 19, 2013, order directing the return of documents to real party in interest entered in Eighth Judicial District Court Case No. A627691, pending further order of this court.		13-19133
07/03/2013	Motion	Filed Steven C. Jacobs' Motion to Permit Filing of an Opposition in Excess of Ten Pages in Response to Emergency Motion Under NRAP 27(e) to Stay the District Court's June 19, 2013, Order.		13-19486
07/03/2013	Appendix	Filed Real Party in Interest Steven C. Jacobs' Appendix to Opposition to Emergency Motion Under NRAP 27(e) to Stay the District Court's June 19, 2013 Order Volume I of I.		13-19487
07/22/2013	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Granting Motion to File Opposition with Excess Pages. The clerk of this court shall file the 25-page opposition, provisionally received in this court on July 3, 2013. Fn1[We defer ruling on the motion for a stay.]		13-21479
07/22/2013	Motion	Filed Opposition to Emergency Motion Under NRAP 27(e) to Stay the District Court's June 19, 2013, Order.		13-21480
07/29/2013	Order/Clerk's	Filed Order Granting Telephonic Extension. Real party in interest's answer to the emergency petition for writ of prohibition or mandamus due: August 5, 2013.		13-22270
07/29/2013	Motion	Filed Petitioners' Motion for Leave to File A Reply In Excess of Five Pages.		13-22309
08/06/2013	Petition/Writ	Filed Real Party in Interest Steven C. Jacobs' Answer to Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents.		13-22994
08/06/2013	Appendix	Filed Real Party in Interest Steven C. Jacobs' Appendix to Answer to Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents Volume I of II.		13-22995
08/06/2013	Appendix	Filed Real Party in Interest Steven C. Jacobs' Appendix to Answer to Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents Volume II of II.		13-22996
08/08/2013	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Denying Motion to Consolidate. Petitioners have filed a motion to consolidate these original writ petitions, which real party in interest opposes. The motion to consolidate is therefore denied. Althought the identified cases will not be formally consolidated, the cases will nonetheless be clustered based on any overlapping legal issues to ensure that those issues are resolved in a consistent and efficient manner. Fn1[To the extent that petitioners, in seeking consolidation of these petition, also ask this court for relief with regard to the timing and scope of a pending evidentiary hearing, we conclude that these requests are outside of the scope of the motion for consolidation, and we therefore deny them.] Nos. 62489/62944/63444.		13-23253
08/20/2013	Order/Clerk's	Filed Order Granting Telephonic Extension. Petitioner shall have until August 28, 2013, to file and serve the reply to the answer to the emergency petition for writ of prohibition or mandamus.		13-24569
08/28/2013	Petition/Writ	Filed Reply Brief in Support of Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents.		13-25504
08/28/2013	Appendix	Filed Supplement to Appendix in Support of Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus to Protect Privileged Documents Volume 1 (PA3193 - 3230).		13-25505
08/30/2013	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Granting Motion to File Reply with Excess Pages. Having considered petitioners' motion to file a reply to the opposition to their motion for a stay with excess pages, we grant it. The clerk of this court shall file the ten-page reply and attached exhibits, provisionally received in this court on July 29, 2013. Fn1[We defer ruling on the motion for a stay.]		13-25761
08/30/2013	Motion	Filed Reply In Support of Emergency Motion Under NRAP 27(E) To Stay The District Court's June 19, 2013 Order Pending Decision On Petition For Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus To Protect Privileged Documents.		13-25762
09/03/2013	Brief	Filed Notice of Recent Supplemental Authority.		13-25847
10/01/2013	Order/Procedural	Filed Order Granting Stay. We stay the June 19, 2013, order directing the return of documents to real party in interest in Eighth Judicial DIstrict Court Case No. A627691, pending further order of this court. We further deny real party in interest's request for relief from the stay of the proceedings below, as this request is outside the scope of the issue pending before us here.		13-29195
11/14/2013	Motion	Filed Request for Oral Argument in Related Cases No. 62944 and 63444.		13-34372
11/27/2013	Motion	Filed Response To Request For Oral Argument In Related Cases 63444 and 62944.		13-35985
12/05/2013	Motion	Filed Reply in Support of Request for Oral Argument in Related Cases No. 62944 and 63444.		13-36495
01/29/2014	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Notice Scheduling Oral Argument. Argument is scheduled for Monday, March 3, 2014, @ 2:00 p.m. in Las Vegas for 30 minutes.		14-03062
02/18/2014	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Oral Argument Reminder Notice.		14-05079
03/03/2014	Case Status Update	Oral argument held this day. Case submitted for decision. Before the En Banc Court.
05/16/2014	Notice/Incoming	Filed Notice of Appearance of Counsel, James J. Pisanelli, Esq., Todd L. Bice, Esq., Debra L. Spinelli, Esq., and Eric T. Aldrian, Esq. of the law firm Pisanelli Bice PLLC, on Behalf of Appellant Steven C. Jacobs.		14-16011
08/07/2014	Opinion/Dispositional	Filed Authored Opinion. "Petition granted in part." We therefore grant Sand's writ petition in part and direct the clerk of this court to issue a writ of prohibition ordering the district court to halt the return to JAcobs of the purportedly privileged documents. Fn1[The Honorable Kristina Pickering and the Honorable Ron Parraguirre, Justices, voluntarily recused themselves form participation in the decision of this matter.] Fn18[Sand's alternative request for a writ of mandamus is denied. In light of our resolution of this writ petition, we vacate the stay imposed by our October 1, 2013, order.] Before the Court EN BANC. Author: Gibbons. C.J. Majority: Gibbons/Hardesty/Douglas/Cherry/Saitta. 130 Nev. Adv. Opn. No. 69. EN BANC		14-25878
08/07/2014	Writ	Issued Writ with letter. Original and one copy of writ and copy of opinion mailed to Steve L. Morris for service upon Judge Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez.		14-25913
08/13/2014	Writ	Filed Returned Writ. Original Writ returned. Served on Judge Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez on August 11, 2014.		14-26634
09/02/2014	Remittitur	Issued Notice in Lieu of Remittitur.		14-28856
09/02/2014	Case Status Update	Notice in Lieu of Remittitur Issued/Case Closed.
12/23/2014	Notice/Outgoing	Issued Letter dated December 17, 2014 to Publishers with corrections to recently filed opinions. Nos. 59976/60091/60622/59630/56591/(60598/61038)/61655/61681/61082/62890/59210/62768/62944/62160/63871/(58530/59162)/61820/63444/53264/60050/63078. (Letter entered in 59976 as document no. 14-41986)

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