Nevada Blogs

Nevada is unusual among the States in not having an intermediate court of appeals. That means that the Nevada Supreme Court fulfills two functions usually split between a state's highest court and a state's intermediate courts: error correction and law declaration. Typically, the principal business of a state's supreme court is law declaration. Nevada's Supreme ...

In 2005, the Nevada state legislature responded to what it perceived as a judicial electoral debacle. The debacle? In 2004, a graduate of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (where I am employed) was popularly elected to the state judiciary as a justice of the peace in ...