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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA v. TARKANIAN

No. 23494.

879 P.2d 1180 (1994)

110 Nev. 581

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Dr. Leonard Goodhall, as President of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Officer of the University of Nevada; and Frankie Sue Del Papa, Lilly Fong, Dorothy Gallager, Chris Karamanos, Joan Denny, Daniel J. Klaich, John McBride, JoAnn Sherrin and June Whitely as Members of the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, Appellants, v. Jerry TARKANIAN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

July 7, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Jones, Close & Brown and Gary R. Goodheart, Las Vegas, Donald Klasic, Gen. Counsel University System, Reno, for appellants.

Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, for respondent.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

This litigation between basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian (Tarkanian) and his former employers — the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and its Board of Regents (collectively referred to as UNLV) — has had a long and tortuous history. It began in 1977, when the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) concluded that Coach Tarkanian had violated numerous NCAA rules and urged UNLV to suspend him from his coaching...

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