Appellant's Failure to Timely Serve Parties Doesn't Divest Judge of Ability to Extend Deadline

The Nevada Supreme Court this week ruled that a municipal employer’s failure to timely serve all the necessary parties with a copy of its petition for judicial review of an adverse workers’ compensation decision did not mean that it was necessarily out of luck. Though the court said proper service is a jurisdictional requirement to invoke the oversight authority of the judiciary, a judge has discretion to extend the 45-day deadline for service. An appellant’s failure to properly serve all the parties within 45 days does not divest the judge of jurisdiction to address whethe...