Court Opinion

ID: 2824406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-08-11 04:48:13.007493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:41:05.933127
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entered February 10, 2014, setting the value of the stock was a final
                  appealable judgment and the notice of appeal was untimely.
                  Respondents/cross-appellants and respondents also move to dismiss the
                  appeal of the award of fees and costs on the ground that the motion was
                  untimely filed in the district court in violation of NRCP 54(d)(2)(B) and
                  because appellants have accepted payment. The motion is opposed.
                                     We conclude that the district court's order establishing the
                  value of the stock was not a final appealable order because it did not set
                  forth a final judgment amount.                Lee v. GNLV Corp.,   116 Nev. 424, 996
P.2d 416 (2000). Moreover, it appears that the district court has not yet
                  entered a final written order including its final calculation of the
                  judgment. The notice of appeal is therefore premature. See NRAP 4(a)(1);
                  Rust u. Clark Cnty. Sch. Dist., 103 Nev. 686, 688, 747 P.2d 1380, 1381
                  (1987). Accordingly the appeal from the February 10, 2014, order is
                  dismissed without prejudice to appellants/cross-respondents' right to
                  appeal from a final written judgment. See NRAP 3A.
                                     Respondents/cross-appellants and respondents also move to
                  dismiss the appeal from the order awarding attorney fees and costs on the
                  ground that it was untimely filed in the district court in violation of NRCP
                  54. This argument goes to the merits of the appeal rather than to the
                  jurisdiction of this court. Nevertheless, while ordinarily, an order
                  awarding attorney fees and costs is appealable as a special order after
                  final judgment, in this case because there has been no final order, the
                  appeal of the attorney fee award is also premature.                See NRAP 3A(b)(8)
                  (allowing appeals from special orders              after final judgment); Lee u. GNLV
                  Corp., 116 Nev. 424, 996 P.2d 416 (2000) (explaining that attorney fee and

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                 cost awards rendered after a final judgment are appealable post-judgment
                 orders). Accordingly, we
                            ORDER these appeals DISMISSED.'

                                                                                  J.
                                                   Saitta

                                                                                  J.

                                                   Pickering

                cc: Hon. Susan Scann, District Judge
                     Michael H. Singer, Settlement Judge
                     Sklar Williams LLP
                     Greenberg Traurig, LLP/Las Vegas
                     Eighth District Court Clerk

                     'The parties stipulated motion to consolidate these appeals is denied
                as moot.

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