BOWMAN v. EIGHTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT

No. 16806.

728 P.2d 433 (1986)

Loretta BOWMAN, County Clerk, of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Appellant, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, In and for CLARK COUNTY, the Honorable Paul S. Goldman, District Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Miller, Dist. Atty., Bill Curran, County Counsel and Zev Kaplan, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for appellant.

Paul S. Goldman, Dist. Judge of the Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, Clark County, Las Vegas, for respondent.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court holding appellant, Loretta Bowman, Clerk of the Eighth Judicial District Court, in contempt of court, imposing sanctions against her in the amount of $500, and sentencing her to twenty (20) days in the county jail. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.1

The district judge's finding of contempt arose out of an underlying action filed by Cambridge...

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