LIPPIS v. PETERS

No. 26575.

921 P.2d 1248 (1996)

Justice of the Peace Debra LIPPIS, Dept. 1, Las Vegas Township; Justice of the Peace Kelly Slade, Dept. 2, Las Vegas Township; Justice of the Peace Daniel Ahlstrom, Dept. 3, Las Vegas Township; Justice of the Peace James Bixler, Dept. 4, Las Vegas Township; Justice of the Peace William Jansen, Dept. 5, Las Vegas Township; Justice of the Peace Nancy Oesterle, Dept. 6, Las Vegas Township, in her Official Capacity as Justice of the Peace, Justice Court, Las Vegas Township; North Las Vegas Justice of the Peace James Kelly, Justice Court; North Las Vegas Township; North Las Vegas Justice of the Peace James Kelly and Justice Court, North Las Vegas Township, Appellants, v. Debra B. PETERS and Antone Peters, and Helen Corbett, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

August 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart Bell, District Attorney, Robert J. Gower, Deputy District Attorney, Clark County, for Appellants.

Nevada Legal Services, Barbara E. Buckley, Dan L. Wulz and Jordan Savage, Las Vegas, for Respondents.


OPINION

SPRINGER, Justice:

This is an appeal by two justices' courts and by seven individual justices of the peace from a district court judgment against them by which the courts and the justices are enjoined "from failing to hold hearings for tenants after the tenants filed an Affidavit in Opposition to Eviction Notice."

The oddity of the district court's exercising its equitable jurisdiction to enjoin inferior courts and judicial...

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