United States Ninth Circuit

Nevada's "countersignature" statute, Nev. Rev. Stat. section 680A.300, is unconstitutional as it violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV because Nevada's discrimination against licensed nonresident insurance agents is not closely related to a substantial reason for that discrimination beyond the mere fact that they are citizens of other states.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2006
• Decided 04/10/2008
• Published 04/10/2008

Judges

• BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MELVIN BRUNETTI, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and STEPHEN S. TROTT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• George H. Taylor and Robert Auer, Deputy Attorneys General of the State of Nevada, Carson City, NV, for the defendant-appellant., Scott A. Sinder, Alysa N. Zeltzer, and Daniel S. Blynn, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Daniel F. Polsenberg, Lawrence Epstein, and Heidi Parry Stern, Beckley Singleton, Chtd., Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellees.