Sands said other documents should be off-limits to Jacobs because they are confidential communications with the company’s lawyers, including a report on “prostitution activities at the Macau Venetian Resort” and e-mails from an unidentified sender about corruption investigations, according to court filings.

In an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court to overrule Gonzalez on documents she said are fair game, Sands said a fired executive doesn’t have the right to possess corporate property.

The trial judge’s ruling gives Jacobs a free pass “to load the corporation’s privileged documents into the digital equivalent of several semi-trucks upon his departure, and then haul those files away to use them against the company,” Sands said in a June 21 filing. “The district court’s ruling turns the concepts of fiduciary duty and loyalty upside down.”

The company also argued that Jacobs hasn’t shown that any of the disputed documents are relevant to the question of whether Sands China can be sued in Nevada.

Supreme Court

The Nevada Supreme Court has agreed to consider all three of Sands’s petitions challenging rulings by Gonzalez over disclosure of documents.

When Gonzalez ruled in September that the company had “deceived” her about documents that it was refusing to provide to Jacobs, she said she would no longer allow Sands to rely on Macau privacy laws as grounds for withholding evidence. As an additional sanction, she ordered Las Vegas Sands and Sands China to contribute $25,000 to the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and pay some of Jacobs’s attorneys’ fees.

The Nevada Supreme Court two years ago said the Jacobs lawsuit can’t proceed until Gonzalez decides the jurisdiction issue. Hong Kong-listed Sands China, which is majority owned by Las Vegas Sands, argues that it doesn’t do business in Nevada, has no presence there, and can’t be sued by Jacobs in Las Vegas.

Sands said in a July 23 filing to the state’s high court that the rulings by Gonzalez it’s challenging raise “serious questions about efficient case management.”

“Nearly two years after this court directed the trial judge to conduct a hearing on the singular issue of whether SCL is subject to jurisdiction in Clark County, Nevada, defendants have incurred millions of dollars in discovery-related expenses for a jurisdictional hearing that has yet to occur,” Sands said in the filing.