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CLARK CTY. SOCIAL SERV. DEPT. v. NEWKIRK

No. 18903.

789 P.2d 227 (1990)

CLARK COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT, Clark County, Nevada, and County of Clark, Nevada, Appellants and Cross-Respondents, v. Everett NEWKIRK, for Himself and Those Similarly Situated, Respondent and Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

March 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex Bell, Dist. Atty., Victor W. Priebe and Michael L. Douglas, Deputy Dist. Attys., Las Vegas, for appellants and cross-respondents.

Justin M. Clouser, Las Vegas, Beckley, Singleton, DeLanoy, Jemison & List and Daniel F. Polsenberg, Las Vegas, for respondent and cross-appellant.

OPINION

SPRINGER, Justice:

Everett Newkirk has been a citizen of Clark County for approximately seven years. He is sixty-four years old and lives on the streets. He sleeps in parks in the daytime, claiming that he is afraid of being killed if he sleeps there in the nighttime.

On April 23, 1986, Everett Newkirk filed an application for relief with the Clark County Social Service Department. His application shows that his request was made because he...

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