Opinion ID: 2639670
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Heading: The Nevada state district court summary judgments in the Salvador Barreras and Collins cases

Text: The district court cites two Nevada district court decisions in granting Harrah's summary judgment motion based on issue preclusion. It cites to Salvador Barreras v. Harrah's Laughlin, Inc., No. A484654 (Nev. Dist. Ct. June 13, 2005), in which the district court granted Harrah's summary judgment and found that issue preclusion barred Salvador Barrera's claim based on the jury verdict in the Yvette Barreras case. It also cites to the decision in Collins v. Harrah's Laughlin, Inc., No. A472232 (Nev.Dist.Ct. Nov. 21, 2005), granting Harrah's summary judgment based on issue preclusion. In Collins, the district court found that the issue of foreseeability had been fully litigated in the Yvette Barreras case, where a jury found that the criminal acts of the biker gangs were not foreseeable to Harrah's. The Collins court also found that all the Harrah's patrons were business invitees of Harrah's and were sufficiently aligned and related in their common interests to apply the same foreseeability finding to them. The Collins court also noted that two juries, in the Yvette Barreras and Ramirez cases, found that Harrah's was not negligent. For the same reasons discussed above regarding the lack of privity between the Ramirez plaintiffs and appellants, the appellants were not in privity with the Salvador Barreras or Collins plaintiffs. Therefore, neither case provides a basis for the application of issue preclusion.