Nevada Appellate Courts Advance Opinions for February 27, 2020

Chur v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct.

• Can a corporate director or officer be held individually liable for breaching his or her fiduciary duty of care through gross negligence.

7510 Perla Del Mar Ave Tr. v. Bank of Am.

• Does an offer to pay a superpriority amount in the future, once that amount is determined, constitute a tender sufficient to preserve a first deed of trust.

Coroner v. Las Vegas Review-Journal

• Can the Coroner’s Office refuse to disclose a juvenile autopsy report once it has provided the report to a Child Death Review team under NRS 432B.407(6).

• Does NRS 239.012 immunize a governmental entity from an award of attorney fees when the entity, in response to a records request, withholds public records in good faith.
  

Stark v. Lackey

• Were comments posted to a public Facebook page criticizing a Nevada Department of Wildlife’s biologist’s handling of bears related to a matter of public interest such that they constituted good-faith communications entitled to anti-SLAPP protections.

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