Hidalgo v. Eighth Judicial District Court

OPINION ON REHEARING

On December 27, 2007, this court issued an opinion in this case granting a petition for a writ of mandamus.1 Subsequently, the real party in interest filed a rehearing petition. On February 21, 2008, this court withdrew the prior opinion pending resolution of the petition for rehearing. After reviewing the rehearing petition and answer, as well as the briefs and appendix, we conclude that rehearing is warranted under NRAP 40(c)(2), and we grant the petition for rehearing. We now issue this opinion in place of our prior opinion.

In this opinion, we consider whether…