LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The Southern Nevada Well being District is popping to the Supreme Court docket of Nevada to evaluation arguments in a lawsuit filed by a Las Vegas-area health club, sparked by a lady’s dying.
On Apr. 16, Joel D. Henriod, a companion at Eglet Legislation, filed a discover of attraction following a district courtroom’s resolution on Feb. 25 in favor of the Las Vegas Athletic Membership (LVAC).
Clark County District Court docket Decide Timothy Williams beforehand heard arguments that resulted within the resolution that the well being district didn’t have standing to alter guidelines for health club swimming pools, together with the LVAC.
“The Court finds that SNHD acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it determined that LVAC’s pools are public and not exempt as a private club,” Decide Williams famous, based on courtroom paperwork. “SNHD’s power to regulate swimming pools is limited to public pools, and here the Court finds that SHND wrongfully changed LVAC’s private club status to public.”
The courtroom cited state regulation which described a privately owned pool as one utilized by members of a non-public membership or invited visitors, citing LVAC’s swimming pools as becoming the outline. Decide Williams additionally wrote the SNHD couldn’t deny the LVAC’s exemption primarily based on dimension, noting greater than 160,000 members and a number of areas.
The courtroom heard arguments additionally associated to the drowning dying of 58-year-old Leticia Triplett, who died the morning of Feb. 4, 2024, within the LVAC pool on North Decatur Boulevard.
“They failed to demonstrate either that these pools pose the same drowning risk as deep-water pools, or that a lifeguard could have prevented Ms. Triplett’s death,” he wrote. “Accordingly, the Court finds that SNHD acted arbitrarily and capriciously in failing to consider alternative monitoring plans proposed by LVAC.”
Nevada Supreme Court docket information present the discover of attraction has been docketed.
