LAS VEGAS SANDS v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST. CT.

No. 63444.

331 P.3d 905 (2014)

LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP., A Nevada Corporation; and Sands China Ltd., A Cayman Islands Corporation, Petitioners, 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 Steven C. Jacobs, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

August 7, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Law Group and Steve L. Morris and Rosa Solis-Rainey , Las Vegas; Kemp, Jones & Coulthard, LLP, and J. Randall Jones and Mark M. Jones , Las Vegas; Holland & Hart LLP and J. Stephen Peek and Robert J. Cassity , Las Vegas, for Petitioners.

Pisanelli Bice, PLLC, and Todd L. Bice , James J. Pisanelli , Debra L. Spinelli , and Eric T. Aldrian , Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.


OPINION

By the Court, GIBBONS, C.J.:

In this opinion, we consider whether a former chief executive officer of a corporation, who is now suing his former employer, is within a "class of persons" entitled to access the corporation's privileged documents for use in the litigation. We conclude that a corporation's current management is the sole holder of its attorney-client privilege, and thus, Nevada law does not allow for a judicially created class...

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