Opinion ID: 2630934
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Heading: Sufficiency of the January 18, 2007, hearing

Text: The district court set a hearing on January 18, 2007, to consider Bahena's motion to establish damages by way of a prove-up hearing and Goodyear's countermotion to reconsider sanctions. At the hearing, the district court allowed the attorneys for Bahena and Goodyear to make factual representations regarding the various discovery issues in dispute. The court also considered the record, which included exhibits and affidavits from other attorneys for Goodyear regarding the discovery disputes in question. The questions of the district court at the hearing to counsel pertained to various discovery requests that were propounded, and the failure of Goodyear to comply with the discovery commissioner's recommendations and subsequent court order to produce a witness for deposition prior to December 28, 2006. The district court further considered the objections that had been previously filed by Goodyear to the recommendations of the discovery commissioner regarding the deposition witness. Since the district court considered all affidavits and exhibits, and permitted the attorneys for Bahena and Goodyear to make factual representations to the court, we conclude that the district court conducted a sufficient hearing. Based upon the factual representations made by the attorneys, as officers of the court, and the balance of the record, the district court crafted its own findings of fact and conclusions of law emanating from this hearing. [9] The nature of the hearing complied with the requirements of Young, 106 Nev. 88, 787 P.2d 777. Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion by the way it structured the hearing since the record was sufficient for the court to make its findings of willfulness. [10]