FJDCR 1.3

(a) “Case” includes all actions and proceedings of every kind.

(b) “Civil case” means all cases other than criminal, family, guardianship, and juvenile cases.

(c) “Court” means the First Judicial District Court of Nevada.

(d) “Emergency” means an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate court action to avoid irreparable harm to a person, property, or constitutional or other legal right.

(e) “Family cases” means cases governed by NRS Title 11.

(f) “Guardianship cases” means cases governed by NRS Title 13.

(g) “Indian child” means an unmarried person under the age of 18 who is either a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe, or eligible for membership in a federally recognized Indian tribe and the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe.

(h) “Judicial clerk” means the court clerk, appointed deputies, and the clerk’s staff.

(i) “Juvenile cases” means cases covered by NRS Title 5.

(j) A “motion” includes all requests for an order, other than initial pleadings, regardless of the title a party puts on the paper.

(k) “Papers” are all documents filed with the court, other than pleadings.

(l) “Party” means a person who filed a legal case, or a person named in a pleading as a person against whom the legal case is filed.

(m) “Person” means natural persons, corporations, firms, associations, and all other legal entities.

(n) “Pleading” is defined by NRCP 7. An initial original petition is also a pleading.

(o) “Related cases” are ones in which:

(1) Both cases involve one or more of the same parties, or a person or entity that has or had a business relationship with a party, for example, a stockholder, partner, creditor, debtor, etc.;

(2) Both cases involve the same property, transaction, or event;

(3) Both cases involve similar questions of fact and law and their assignment to the same judge is likely to effect a substantial savings of judicial effort, either because the same result would follow in both cases or otherwise; or

(4) For any other reason, it would result in substantial duplication of labor if the cases were heard by different judges.

(p) “Service” means providing a copy of a pleading or paper to another party or person. A summons and complaint are served as set out in NRCP 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. Pleadings and papers filed after an original complaint and summons are served as set out in NRCP 5.