{"id":23145,"date":"2012-05-01T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=23145"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:34:28","slug":"state-of-nevada-rebuts-nick-diaz-lawsuit-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/state-of-nevada-rebuts-nick-diaz-lawsuit-ufc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Nevada Rebuts Nick Diaz Lawsuit | UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Adam Conklin:<\/strong>
\nSince his suspension following a positive drug test that showed cannabis metabolites in his blood, Nick Diaz has been in a legal battle with the state of Nevada to clear his name and eliminate, or at least shorten his one year suspension.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the state of Nevada answered back to a lawsuit charged against them from Nick Diaz, citing a violation of his due process by declining to grant him a hearing on the status of his fighter’s license within 45 days of his suspension. This is just the most recent news in a story that is far from its conclusion.<\/p>\n

By Mike Chiappetta – Senior Writer – MMAFighting.com<\/a>
\nApr 30, 2012 – Last Tuesday, UFC welterweight Nick Diaz filed a lawsuit against the Nevada state athletic commission, claiming that the state regulation agency violated his right to due process by declining to grant him a hearing on the status of his fighter’s license within 45 days of his suspension. \u2028\u2028According to the state of Nevada’s office of the attorney general, the legal move is misguided. That is because Diaz’s legal team, headed by Ross C. Goodman, cited a “summary suspension” of Diaz’s license in his court filing. According to Nevada’s state codes, a summary suspension can be ordered if an agency finds that “public health, safety or welfare imperatively require emergency action.”\u2028\u2028But in a written response from Nevada attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto to Goodman and forwarded to MMA Fighting, the state of Nevada asserts that Diaz’s legal team misunderstood the suspension.
\n“No Notice of Summary Suspension was ever served on your client,” Masto wrote. “In this matter, Mr. Diaz was properly served with a ‘Notice of Hearing on Temporary Suspension’ and he failed to appear at the hearing. The Commission temporarily suspended Mr. Diaz\u2019s license at the hearing. Neither Mr. Diaz nor you objected in any manner to the temporary suspension.”
\nThe letter effectively indicates that because Diaz was not given a “summary suspension,” his case does not fall under Nevada code NRS 233B.127, which requires a hearing within 45 days. A separate code, NRS 467.117, indicates that the commission can ” continue the suspension until it makes a final determination of any disciplinary action to be taken against the licensee or holder of the permit.”\u2028\u2028The letter also indicates that the NSAC delay in scheduling Diaz’s hearing was partially his fault, caused while waiting for him to produce his medical marijuana card.
\n“I’ve waited for more than a month for the card,” Masto wrote.\u2028\u2028Diaz tested positive for marijuana metabolites on February 4, shortly after losing a UFC 143 match against Carlos Condit. On a pre-fight medical questionnaire, he denied taking any “prescribed medications” in the last two weeks. \u2028\u2028On April 4, Nevada sent Goodman a letter asking him to produce Diaz’s medical marijuana card. Goodman later produced a letter from Diaz’s doctor, Robert E. Sullivan, who said he had first issued a physician’s statement in June 2009 which noted that Diaz had a ‘serious medical condition” which would, in his professional opinion, “benefit from the use of medical cannabis.” He issued a follow-up statement on Feb. 28, 2012, re-affirming the same.\u2028\u2028The Nevada attorney general’s office said that they are moving forward with their complaint against Diaz, and that they would still attempt to hold a disciplinary hearing on the matter.\u2028\u2028Meanwhile, Nevada’s Clark County District Court has set a May 14 hearing at 10:30 am on Goodman’s request for an injunction against the suspension on Diaz’s license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Conklin: Since his suspension following a positive drug test that showed cannabis metabolites in his blood, Nick Diaz has been in a legal battle with the state of Nevada to clear his name and eliminate, or at least shorten his one year suspension. 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