Ruiz v. City of North Las Vegas

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

In this appeal, we address whether an individual peace officer, rather than the union to which he belongs and which pursued arbitration on his behalf, may seek judicial relief from the binding arbitration decision that ensued. While we recognize that the peace officer was not a “party” to the arbitration proceeding able to challenge the decision under Nevada’s arbitration laws and that a union generally cannot assign its collectively bargained-for rights to challenge an arbitration decision to an individual officer, we conclude that NRS 289.120, which allows…