Hickey v. Eighth Judicial District Court

Steffen, J., with whom Mowbray, J., agrees,

dissenting:

Respectfully, I dissent.

I am unable to join in the majority opinion because of what I perceive to be a compellingly clear statute that mandates a contrary result.

NRS 62.360(4) specifically addresses the extent to which a minor’s juvenile court records may be utilized in civil actions. By its precise terms, only the juvenile’s name may be released and used in the action. Long ago, we declared as an elementary principle of statutory construction that if the language of a statute “is susceptible of but one natural, honest construction, that…