One of our goals at Nevada Trucking Law is to write a blog post regarding every reported Nevada appellate case, past and present, that involves a commercial truck or heavy equipment. The case considered in this post is Arrowhead Freight Lines, Ltd. v. White, 71 Nev. 257, 287 P.2d 718 (1955). So you might be asking, what can we learn from a legal opinion that is over 50 years old? There are several good lessons….
Choose Carefully Those Cases That You Try
September 9, 2009 by
The plan regarding this Trucking Blog was to identify and report on those Nevada cases that deal with trucking issues. While it was tough to find, we think we found a good lesson about finality in the two page opinion of Shaw v. Beehive State Agric. Co-op, Inc., 92 Nev. 611, 555 P.2d 958 (1976). […]
An Expert Is An Expert, Is An Expert?
April 6, 2009 by
In the case of Staccato v. Valley Hospital, 123 Nev. 530, 170 P.3d 503, 505 (2007), the Nevada Supreme Court considered the question of which type of experts can give opinions in which disciplines. In Staccato, the Plaintiff hired an expert doctor to testify against the Defendant’s nurse. The nurse had given a “needle-phobic” patient […]
