Canarelli v. Eighth Judicial District Court ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

In this petition for extraordinary writ relief, we must determine whether the district court may appoint an unwilling director trustee of a dissolved corporation for the purpose of defending actions against the corporation that arose post-dissolution and after completion of the winding-up process. To resolve this issue, we must construe Nevada’s corporate survival statutes and, in particular, NRS 78.600, which allows the district court to “continue the directors trustees as provided in NRS 78.590 upon dissolution.” We conclude that NRS 78.600 does not confer…