LAAKONEN v. EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

No. 7654.

538 P.2d 574 (1975)

Robert W. LAAKONEN, Petitioner, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF CLARK, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiener, Goldwater & Galatz, Gerald M. Gordon and J. Charles Thompson, Las Vegas, for petitioner.

Dickerson, Miles & Pico, Charles H. Wagner, Las Vegas, for respondent.


OPINION

MOWBRAY, Justice:

Petitioner, Robert W. Laakonen, seeks a writ of mandamus directing the district court in and for the County of Clark to grant partial summary judgment in petitioner's civil tort action, by declaring Nevada's automobile guest statute, NRS 41.180, violative of the equal protection guarantees provided in article 4, section 21, of the Nevada Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. For the...

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