Kirsch v. Traber

By the Court, STIGLICH, J.:

Under the doctrine of issue preclusion, a Nevada court defers to a foreign court's final judgment resolving an issue between litigants if those same litigants previously litigated the same issue before the foreign court. However, the Nevada court does not defer to the foreign court's final judgment if it contravenes a final judgment previously entered by a Nevada court.

The question to be resolved in this appeal is whether a Nevada district court's order denying a motion to dismiss constituted a final judgment on the issue of demand futility. To the extent that we…