Opinion
No. 72109
07-25-2017
cc: Chair, Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board Joseph A. Scalia, II C. Stanley Hunterton, Bar Counsel, State Bar of Nevada Kimberly K. Farmer, Executive Director, State Bar of Nevada Gordon & Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
ORDER DENYING PETITION
This is an original petition for a writ of mandamus or prohibition challenging a disciplinary hearing panel chair's order denying petitioner's motion to set aside a default in an attorney discipline matter.
We are not persuaded that our extraordinary intervention is warranted. Pan v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 120 Nev. 222, 228, 88 P.3d 840, 844 (2004); Smith v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 107 Nev. 674, 677, 818 P.2d 849, 851 (1991). SCR 105(3) provides for our automatic review of hearing panel decisions recommending certain types of discipline, and makes an appeal available for all other types. Accordingly, if the hearing leads to discipline being imposed against him, petitioner has a plain, speedy, and adequate legal remedy in the form of such automatic review of or appeal from that discipline. See NRS 34.170; NRS 34.330; Pan, 120 Nev. at 224, 88 P.3d at 841. Because petitioner has otherwise failed to demonstrate that our discretionary and extraordinary intervention is warranted, see NRS 34.160; NRS 34.320, we
ORDER the petition DENIED.
/s/_________, C.J.
Cherry /s/_________, J.
Douglas /s/_________, J.
Pickering /s/_________, J.
Parraguirre /s/_________, J.
Gibbons /s/_________, J.
Hardesty /s/_________, J.
Stiglich cc: Chair, Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board
Joseph A. Scalia, II
C. Stanley Hunterton, Bar Counsel, State Bar of Nevada
Kimberly K. Farmer, Executive Director, State Bar of Nevada
Gordon & Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP