Colt Dodrill (Partner-Phoenix, AZ / Las Vegas, NV) and Ileen Younan (Associate-Phoenix, AZ) secured partial summary judgment in the U.S. District Court, District of Nevada, on behalf of the firm’s trucking company client following an accident involving the client’s tractor-trailer. The plaintiff alleged negligence against our client’s driver, as well as vicarious and direct liability against the trucking company. After Wilson Elser successfully removed the case based on diversity jurisdiction and admitting the driver’s course and scope in the answer, Colt immediately moved for partial summary judgment on the direct liability claims based on redundancy. He argued that negligent hiring, training, and supervision claims were alternative claims, available only in cases like intentional tort claims in which course and scope is disputed. Colt further argued that McHaffie (Missouri) and Diaz (California) were the majority rule and would apply under Erie because Nevada already bars a double recovery. The court agreed and struck the direct liability claims, rendering hundreds of pages of policies, procedures, and training documents inadmissible and considerably shortening any subsequent jury trial.