Opinion ID: 2589907
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Heading: Writ properly before the court

Text: This court may issue a writ of mandamus to enforce the performance of an act which the law especially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office ... or to compel the admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right ... to which he is entitled and from which he is unlawfully precluded by such inferior tribunal. NRS 34.160. A writ of mandamus will issue to control a court's arbitrary or capricious exercise of discretion. Marshall v. District Court, 108 Nev. 459, 466, 836 P.2d 47, 52 (1992) (citing Round Hill Gen. Imp. Dist. v. Newman, 97 Nev. 601, 637 P.2d 534 (1981)). This court has original jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus. See Nev. Const. art. 6, § 4. We decline petitioner's alternate request for a writ of prohibition because in this matter the district court did not act in excess of its jurisdiction. Petitioner district attorney, a non-party in the proceeding below, is without right to appeal and therefore is not an aggrieved party within the meaning of NRAP 3A(a). See Albany v. Arcata Associates, 106 Nev. 688, 799 P.2d 566 (1990). Because petitioner cannot appeal the NRCP 11 order of sanctions, petitioner has no plain, speedy and adequate remedy at law other than to petition this court, and therefore writ relief is an available remedy. Wardleigh v. District Court, 111 Nev. 345, 350, 891 P.2d 1180, 1183 (1995).