A person who engages in a good faith communication in furtherance of the right to petition or the right to free speech in direct connection with an issue of public concern is immune from any civil action for claims based upon the communication.
NRS 41.650
Limitation of liability
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case John v. Douglas County School District (2009)
Most recently applied in 140 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 56 - WYNN v. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (September 2024)
(Added to NRS by 1993, 2848; A 1997, 1365, 2593; 2013, 623)
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.