Roventini v. First Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus by which the petitioner, Roventini, seeks to compel the District Court to set aside a clerk’s entry of default in a tort action for damages. We rule that the extraordinary remedy of mandamus is not here available and refuse to issue the writ.1

*605A writ of mandamus may issue to compel the performance of an act which the law especially enjoins as a duty resulting from office, if there is not a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law. NRS 34.160-34.170. The permissible exercise of discretion by a…