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KIRSCH v. TRABER

No. 70854.

414 P.3d 818 (2018)

134 Nev. Adv. Opn. 22

Michael KIRSCH; and Siu Yip, Appellants, v. Peter G. TRABER; James C. Czirr; Jack W. Callicutt; Gilbert F. Amelio; Kevin D. Freeman; Arthur R. Greenberg; Rod D. Martin; John F. Mauldin; Steven Prelack; Herman Paul Pressler, III; Dr. Marc Rubin; and Galectin Therapeutics, Inc., a Nevada corporation, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

FILED April 5, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee, Hernandez, Landrum & Garofalo, A.P.C., and David S. Lee , Natasha A. Landrum , and Dirk W. Gaspar , Las Vegas; Lifshitz & Miller and Edward W. Miller and Joshua M. Lifshitz , Garden City, New York, for Appellant Michael Kirsch.

Aldrich Law Firm, Ltd., and John P. Aldrich , Las Vegas; The Weiser Law Firm, P.C., and Robert B. Weiser , Brett D. Stecker , and James Ficaro , Berwyn, Pennsylvania; The Weiser Law Firm, P.C., and Kathleen A. Herkenhoff , San Diego, California, for Appellant Siu Yip.

Kaempfer Crowell and Ryan W. Daniels and Lyssa S. Anderson , Las Vegas; King & Spalding LLP and Michael R. Smith and B. Warren Pope , Atlanta, Georgia, for Respondents.

BEFORE CHERRY, PARRAGUIRRE and STIGLICH, JJ.

OPINION

Under the doctrine of issue preclusion, a Nevada court defers to a foreign court's final judgment resolving an issue between litigants if those same litigants previously litigated the same issue before the foreign court. However, the Nevada court does not defer to the foreign court's final judgment...

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