Nevada Highway Patrol Ass'n v. State of Nev.

968 F.2d 1221 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL ASSOCIATION, Jerry Seevers, Robert Woodruff, Roy Hutchings, John Rosa, Russ Benzler, Tim Hall, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE Of NEVADA, Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, Nevada Highway Patrol Division, Defendants-Appellees. No. 88-15642. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 13, 1989. Decided July 1, 1992. Before GOODWIN, HALL and NOONAN, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 While this case has been pending on petition for rehearing, and while we were awaiting the opinion of the Supreme Court of Nevada on two questions of state law which we certified to that court, another panel of this court has decided a closely related question. State of Nevada Employee's Ass'n, Inc. v. Bryan, 916 F.2d 1384 (9th Cir.1990). As the result of the Bryan case, combined with the teaching of the Nevada Court on the proper construction of local statutes, the…