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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. DIST. CT.

No. 44506.

134 P.3d 111 (2006)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, and Chapman Mesa Auto Center, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE OF NEVADA, in and for the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable Michelle Leavitt, District Judge, Respondents, and Heather Simmons, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

May 11, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Greg W. Marsh, Chtd., and Greg W. Marsh, Las Vegas; Bowman and Brooke LLP and Curtis J. Busby, Phoenix, Arizona, for Petitioner General Motors Corporation.

Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos and Thomas J. Lincoln and Loren S. Young, Las Vegas, for Petitioner Chapman Mesa Auto Center.

Mainor Eglet Cottle, LLP, and Robert W. Cottle and Jennifer V. Willis, Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest.

Before the Court En Banc.

OPINION

HARDESTY, J.

In this original writ petition, we clarify Nevada's choice-of-law jurisprudence in tort actions. We conclude that the most significant relationship test, as provided in the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws section 145, should govern the choice-of-law analysis in tort actions unless a more specific section of the Second Restatement applies to the particular tort claim. Consequently, we no longer adhere to the choice-of...

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