Aspen Financial Services, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Douglas, J.:

In this opinion, we address whether a district court properly quashed a subpoena based on Nevada’s news shield statute, NRS 49.275, which protects journalists from being required to reveal information gathered in their professional capacities in the course of developing news stories. We conclude that a request for protection under NRS 49.275 may be raised, as it was here, by a reporter’s attorney in a motion to quash a subpoena, without the need to file a supporting affidavit, so long as the motion demonstrates that the information sought by the subpoena is…