Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-01-27 16:08:16.398355+00
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA

                TAWNI MCCROSKY, INDIVIDUALLY                          No. 68881
                AND AS THE NATURAL PARENT OF
                LYA.M MCCROSKY, A MINOR,
                Petitioner,
                vs.
                THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
                COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
                IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF                                  FILED
                CARSON CITY; AND THE
                HONORABLE JAMES TODD RUSSELL,                             JAN 2 6 2016
                DISTRICT JUDGE,                                         TRACIE K. UNDEMAN
                                                                     CLERK OF .SyFiREME COURT
                Respondents,                                         BY      •yi
                and                                                       DEPUTYti t17.
                CARSON TAHOE REGIONAL
                MEDICAL CENTER, A NEVADA
                BUSINESS ENTITY,
                Real Partn Interest.

                      ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                            This is an original petition for a writ of mandamus challenging
                district court orders granting partial summary judgment and a motion to
                include a settled codefendant on the verdict form in a medical malpractice
                action. Having considered the petition, we are not persuaded that
                petitioner has met her burden to demonstrate that our extraordinary
                discretionary intervention is warranted. NRS 34.160; Piroozi v. Eighth
                Judicial Dist. Court, 131 Nev., Adv. Op. 100, P.3d , (2015)
                (concluding that under NRS 41A.045, a district court is 'required to
                permit [a defendant] the opportunity to argue the comparative fault of the
                settled defendants and include those defendants' names and an
                assignment of their percentage of fault on the jury verdict forms"); Pan v.

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                    Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 120 Nev. 222, 224, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 841, 844
                    (2004) (providing that an appeal is generally an adequate legal remedy
                    precluding writ relief); Smith v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 107 Nev. 674,
                    677, 679, 818 P.2d 849, 851, 853 (1991). Accordingly, we
                                ORDER the petition DENIED.

                                                                                            C.J.
                                                                Parraguirre

                                                                                             , J.
                                                                Hardesty

                                                                                             , J.
                                                                Douglas

                    cc: Hon. James Todd Russell, District Judge
                         Durney & Brennan/Reno
                         Carroll, Kelly, Trotter, Franzen, & McKenna & Peabody
                         Carson City Clerk

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