Nevada Supreme Court: No Basis For Attorney Fee Award Using Higher Billing Rate

( July 16, 2026, 8:24 AM EDT) -- CARSON CITY, Nev. — A panel of the Nevada Supreme Court found that the state’s contempt statute does not authorize attorney fee awards beyond compensatory amounts and that a lower court erred in calculating the lodestar amount using an increased billing rate that was above the billing rate actually charged to homeowners that were sued to recover judgments against their property owners association....