City of Sparks v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada

*953OPINION

By the Court,

Young, J.:

Petitioners are the City of Sparks, the Sparks City Attorney’s Office and the Sparks City Manager’s Office. The City Attorney’s Office and the City Manager’s Office seek a writ of prohibition;1 the City of Sparks seeks a writ of mandamus. At a settlement conference just prior to trial in the underlying action, the city attorney and the city manager, as representatives of the city, proposed a settlement of $25,000.00 for the personal injury suit being brought against the city by real party in interest Flora E. Thomas (“Thomas”). Because the amount proposed was…