Edwards v. Ghandour

OPINION

INTRODUCTION

These proper person appeals present us with an opportunity to clarify two issues: (1) that our decision in Rickard v. Montgomery Ward & Co., 1 holding that a defendant’s bankruptcy operates to toll NRCP 41(e)’s five-year period for bringing an action to trial, applies only to the particular defendant or defendants who have filed for bankruptcy protection, not to defendants who are not bank ruptcy debtors; and (2) that an appeal from the district court’s final judgment does not affect that judgment’s finality for purposes of claim preclusion.

In the proceedings below,…