Marshall v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada

OPINION

Facts

These consolidated matters involve two petitions for writs of certiorari challenging district court orders imposing sanctions against petitioner Edward G. Marshall and an appeal from orders of the district court, certified as final pursuant to NRCP 54(b), granting summary judgment in favor of respondents.

On June 21, 1988, Mary Maziar (Maziar) was served at home with divorce papers initiated by her husband, Paul. When Maziar threatened to shoot Paul, he called Charter Hospital (Charter) and asked for a clinical evaluation team to come to their residence. Henderson police stood by…