Legal Opinion
Waid v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided September 22, 2005No. 42322PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This original petition for a writ of mandamus challenges a district court order disqualifying petitioner Noel Gage and his firm, *607petitioner Gage & Gage, LLP, from representing petitioners Frederick Waid and M. Nafees Nagy, defendants in the underlying action. We conclude that petitioners have not demonstrated that the district court abused its discretion in ordering disqualification. First, we adopt the Seventh Circuit’s test for evaluating when a prior matter and a current matter are substantially related, and we determine that the district court did not abuse its discretion in this…
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