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LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Supreme Court granted a writ of mandamus challenging local rules of access to child custody proceedings in Clark County, Nevada. A reporter was denied access to child custody proceedings because the local rules allow a parent to have the court seal the record, but family privacy interests do not warrant standards more stringent than those used for other matters. Such records are presumptively open, so the local rules were unconstitutional.
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