City of Las Vegas v. Eighth Judicial District Court

OPINION

This matter comes to us by way of an original petition for a writ of mandamus. In resolving this petition, we consider the scope of NRS 33.018, which defines acts that constitute domestic violence. Under NRS 33.018, a person convicted of battery commits an act that constitutes domestic violence when the victim is, among other things, the defendant’s spouse, “any other person to whom [the defendant] is related by blood or marriage,” or a person with whom the defendant resides. 2 The issue raised here is whether a battery committed by a sister-in-law upon the person of her brother-in-law…