Pan v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

This original petition for a writ of mandamus challenges a district court order that dismissed a complaint for forum non conveniens.

SUMMARY

In a series of prior decisions, this court has stated that mandamus is the proper method for challenging the dismissal of a case on forum non conveniens grounds. Those decisions, however, did not address the interplay between writ relief and the availability and adequacy of an appeal. But in other decisions, this court has recognized that an appeal is generally an adequate legal remedy that precludes writ relief.1 Consequently, we take this…