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NEVADA INDEPENDENT v. WHITLEY

No. 81844.

506 P.3d 1037 (2022)

138 Nev. Adv. Opn. 15

The NEVADA INDEPENDENT, Appellant, v. Richard WHITLEY, in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services; the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services; and Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

FILED March 24, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Langford & Associates and Matthew J. Rashbrook and Robert L. Langford , Las Vegas, for Appellant The Nevada Independent.

Aaron D. Ford , Attorney General, Heidi Parry Stern , Solicitor General, Steve Shevorski , Chief Litigation Counsel, and Akke Levin , Senior Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, for Respondents Richard Whitley and the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.

Bailey Kennedy and John R. Bailey , Dennis L. Kennedy , Sarah E. Harmon , and Rebecca L. Crooker , Las Vegas, for Respondent Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC.

McCracken, Stemerman & Holsberry, LLP, and Richard G. McCracken and Paul L. More , San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Culinary Workers Union Local 226.

BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT, PARRAGUIRRE, C.J., STIGLICH and SILVER, JJ.

OPINION

Nevada's public records law shines a light on government conduct. It permits Nevadans insight into whether the officials they elected are holding true to their promises. But this law's illumination ends where statutory confidentiality provisions begin.

In this appeal, we consider whether...

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