Dismissal for failure to set or reset appeal for hearing
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Thompson v. FIRST JUD. DIST. CT., STOREY CTY. (1984)
Most recently applied in SPARKS (LAWRENCE) VS. BARE (June 2016)
(Added to NRS by 1965, 376; A 1985, 57, 972)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. An appeal must be dismissed by the district court unless perfected by application of the defendant, within 60 days after the appeal is filed in the justice court, by having it set for hearing.
2. If an appeal has been set for hearing and the hearing is vacated at the request of the appellant, the appeal must be dismissed unless application is made by the appellant to reset the hearing within 60 days after the date on which the hearing was vacated.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.