Valley Electric Ass'n v. Overfield

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• explaining that parties “prevail” if they succeed on any substantial aspect of the case and noting that the term “prevailing party” “is broadly construed so as to encompass plaintiffs, counterclaimants, and defendants”
• reviewing de novo the question of whether landowners in condemnation actions may be awarded attorney fees as prevailing parties under NRS 18.010(2)(a)
• stating the same when considering prevailing party status in the context of an award of attorney fees under NRS 18.010
• defining a prevailing party as one who \succeeds on any significant issue in litigation\ and explaining that a defendant may be a prevailing party (quoting Women's Fed. Say. & Loan Ass'n v. Nev. Nat'l Bank, 623 F. Supp. 469, 470 (1985))
• under the Nevada fee-shifting statute, a prevailing party is one who “succeeds on any significant issue in litigation which achieves some of the benefit it sought in bringing suit”
• “A party can prevail under [Nev. Rev. Stat. §] 18.010 ‘if it succeeds on any significant issue in litigation which achieves some of the benefit it sought in bringing suit.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).