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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 2006 / Former Justice

Nancy M. Saitta

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Nancy M. Saitta was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Wayne State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Saitta authored 37 published opinions for the court (2007–2013), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Five Star Capital Corp. v. Ruby (185 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 42 of these were attributed to Saitta by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2008	Five Star Capital Corp. v. Ruby†	194 P.3d 709	185
2009	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Miller· Dissent†	212 P.3d 318	99
2012	Davis v. Beling†	278 P.3d 501	96
2010	Higgs v. State· Concurrence†	222 P.3d 648	80
2011	Hobbs v. State†	251 P.3d 177	72
2013	Halcrow, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Clark†	129 Nev. 394	69
2011	Francis v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC†	262 P.3d 705	67
2013	Sandpointe Apartments, LLC v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark†	129 Nev. 813	42
2007	Nanopierce Technologies, Inc. v. Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.†	168 P.3d 73	42
2008	Whitemaine v. Aniskovich†	183 P.3d 137	41
2009	Rivera v. Philip Morris, Inc.†	209 P.3d 271	32
2013	Holmes v. State· Dissent†	129 Nev. 567	31
2011	Reno Newspapers, Inc. v. Gibbons†	127 Nev. 873	31
2007	Clark County District Attorney v. Eighth Judicial District Court†	123 Nev. 337	29
2011	BOONSONG JITNAN v. Oliver†	254 P.3d 623	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Nevada reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Nancy M. Saitta on?: Nancy M. Saitta was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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20 years on the Supreme Court of Nevada. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).