Court Opinion

ID: 9788747
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:17:14.601459+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:16.432954
License: Public Domain

Shearing, L,
concurring:
I would simply deny the petition for rehearing.
Rule 40(c) of the Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure sets forth the standards for the content of a petition for rehearing as follows:
(1) Matters presented in the briefs and oral arguments may not be reargued in the petition for rehearing, and no point may be raised for the first time on rehearing.
(2) The court may consider rehearings in the following circumstances:
(i) When the court has overlooked or misapprehended a material fact in the record or a material question of law in the case, or
(ii) When the court has overlooked, misapplied or failed to consider a statute, procedural rule, regulation or decision directly controlling a dispositive issue in the case.
This petition for rehearing is not appropriate under any of these provisions. The petition reargues matter previously considered and presents new matter not previously argued. Petitioners have not demonstrated to the court that the court has overlooked or misapprehended any material fact or material question of law. Neither have the petitioners demonstrated that the court has overlooked, misapplied or failed to consider a statute, procedural rule, regulation or decision directly controlling a dispositive issue in this case. *478The petitioners are additionally requesting new relief. Since the petition for rehearing does not conform to the appropriate standards, it must be denied.
I do not agree that it is appropriate, in responding to a petition for rehearing, for this court to attempt to answer public criticism of this court’s decision or to criticize the Constitution or laws of this state. We must accept the duly enacted Constitution and laws of this state, whether they are well advised or ill advised; the court’s duty is to decide the cases brought before it. Often that duty involves trying to reconcile provisions that, in practical application, produce results that are incompatible with one another. The court has accomplished that reconciliation in this case. That should end the matter.