HALCROW, INC. v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST. CT.

No. 60194.

302 P.3d 1148 (2013)

HALCROW, INC., Petitioner, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE of Nevada, in and for the COUNTY OF CLARK; and The Honorable Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez, District Judge, Respondents, and Pacific Coast Steel; and Century Steel, Inc., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 27, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Backus Carranza & Burden and Leland Eugene Backus and Shea A. Backus , Las Vegas; Lloyd, Gray, Whitehead & Monroe, P.C., and E. Britton Monroe and Burns L. Logan , Birmingham, AL, for Petitioner.

Gordon & Rees, LLP, and Robert E. Schumacher , Las Vegas; Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP, and Scott R. Omohundro , Craig A. Ramseyer , and Timothy E. Salter , San Diego, CA, for Real Party in Interest Pacific Coast Steel.

Hutchison & Steffen, LLC, and Michael K. Wall , James H. Randall , L. Kristopher Rath , and Cynthia G. Milanowski , Las Vegas; Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck, LLP, and Megan K. Dorsey and Robert C. Carlson , Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest Century Steel, Inc.

Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP, and David R. Johnson and Jared M. Sechrist , Las Vegas, for Amicus Curiae Tishman Construction Corporation of Nevada.

Before the Court En Banc.


OPINION

By the Court, SAITTA, J.:

In this opinion, we address whether the economic loss doctrine applies to bar a claim alleging negligent misrepresentation against a structural steel engineer on a commercial construction project. We exercise our discretion to review this petition for extraordinary writ relief, as our intervention will help resolve related future litigation by addressing an important legal issue, which our decision in Terracon...

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