651.090 - Civil actions; damages; equitable relief; costs and attorney’s fees.
651.090 Civil actions; damages; equitable relief; costs and attorney’s fees.
1. Any person who:
(a) Withholds, denies, deprives or attempts to withhold, deny or deprive any other person of any right or privilege secured by NRS 651.070 or 651.075;
(b) Intimidates, threatens, coerces or attempts to threaten, intimidate or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by NRS 651.070 or 651.075; or
(c) Punishes or attempts to punish any other person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right or privilege secured by NRS 651.070 or 651.075,
Ê is liable to the person whose rights pursuant to NRS 651.070 or 651.075 are affected for actual damages, to be recovered by a civil action in a court in and for the county in which the infringement of civil rights occurred or in which the defendant resides.
2. In an action brought pursuant to this section, the court may:
(a) Grant any equitable relief it considers appropriate, including temporary, preliminary or permanent injunctive relief, against the defendant.
(b) Award costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to the prevailing party.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 690; A 1977, 1609; 1991, 1029; 1997, 75)