Ransdell v. Clark County

OPINION

By the Court,

Cherry, J.:

This appeal raises the issue of whether sovereign immunity principles apply to shield a county from civil liability in an action to recover damages following abatement of a nuisance. Although Nevada has waived its sovereign immunity by statute, exceptions to the waiver apply, including one that protects political subdivisions of the state from liability for their discretionary acts. As we recently adopted in Martinez v. Maruszczak the federal two-part test for determining whether the discretionary-function exception to the general waiver of sovereign immunity…