Admission of Arbitrator’s Findings in Jury Trial Following Short Trial is Constitutional: 11/18/09

 The Nevada Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of NRS 38.259(2) which required the admission into evidence of the arbitrator’s findings entered at the conclusion of a mandatory nonbinding arbitration proceeding in a short trial matter.  The admission of the findings were deemed not to violate the right to jury trial under the Nevada Constitution, Art. 1, § 3, nor the equal protection clauses of the Nevada and United States Constitutions.  Zamora v. Price, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 32 (August 6, 2009).