ANGELL v. DISTRICT COURT

Nos. 23015, 23016, 23019

839 P.2d 1329 (1992)

Steve ANGELL, Janet Westerfield, Individually and as Heir of Leroy Westerfield, Audrey Johnson, State Industrial Insruance System, Southwest Gas Corporation, the Home Insurance Company, Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Sun Insurance Company of New York and United Technologies Corporation, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, In and For the COUNTY OF CLARK, the Honorable Donald M. Mosley, District Judge, and the Honorable Jack Lehman, Chief District Judge, Respondents, Clark County, Nevada, Real Party in Interest. PACIFIC ENGINEERING & PRODUCTION COMPANY OF NEVADA, American Pacific Corporation, Western Electrical Company, Pepcon Systems, Inc., Pepcon Production, Inc., Fred D. Gibson, Jr., C. Keith Rooker, Thomas A. Turner and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, In and For the COUNTY OF CLARK, the Honorable Donald M. Mosley, District Judge, and the Honorable Jack Lehman, District Judge, Respondents, The County of Clark, Nevada, Real Party in Interest. THIOKOL CORPORATION and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, In and For the COUNTY OF CLARK, the Honorable Chief Judge Jack Lehman, and the Honorable Donald M. Mosley, District Judge, Respondents, Clark County, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

October 23, 1992


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cherry & Bailus, Las Vegas, for Angell, Westerfield & Johnson.

Riley M. Beckett, Carson City, for SIIS.

Beckley, Singleton, DeLanoy, Jemison & List, and Daniel F. Polsenberg, Las Vegas, for Southwest Gas.

Cobb, Gugino, Las Vegas, for Home Ins., Aetna Cas. & Sur. and Sun Ins. Co.

Thomas D. Beatty, Las Vegas, for United Technologies.

Galatz, Earl, Smith & Williams, Las Vegas, for Subrogated Carriers and Armstrong.

Barker, Gillock, Koning, Brown & Earley, Las Vegas, for Pacific Engineering & Production Co. et al.

Pico & Mitchell, Las Vegas, for Thiokol Corp. et al.

Rawlings, Olson & Cannon, and Mary P. Groesbeck, Las Vegas, for Clark County, Nevada, Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:1

Pending before this court are consolidated petitions for a writ of prohibition (docket number 23019) and for writs of prohibition and mandamus (docket numbers 23015 and 23016). These petitions concern the litigation resulting from the May 4, 1988 fire and explosion at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company plant in Henderson, Nevada ("Pepcon Litigation").

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