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The Supreme Court of Nevada is the highest state court of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the head of the Nevada Judiciary. [1] The main constitutional function of the Supreme Court is to review appeals made directly from the decisions of the district courts .
The Supreme Court of Nevada is the state supreme court, the state's highest appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of seven justices; the longest-serving member is the Chief Justice, and the rest are associate justices. [1] [2] Each justice is elected statewide for a six-year term. [1]
The Chief Justice rotates on the Supreme Court of Nevada, almost always to a judge who is in their final two years of their term. Following the expansions of the court in 1967 and 1999, judges began to split what had traditionally been a two-year term between two or three justices, allowing each justice the opportunity to be Chief Justice during their six-year term.
Nevada’s Supreme Court declined Tuesday to wade into an electoral controversy despite pleas from the state's top election official and attorney general after one county initially voted against ...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two top officials in Nevada are asking the state Supreme Court to step into a fray over a vote earlier this week by Washoe County commissioners not to certify recount results ...
In an emergency appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday, the news outlets argued that sealing the case “violated the weighty First Amendment presumption of access to civil proceedings ...
[1] [7] On November 21, 2022, Governor Steve Sisolak appointed Lee as a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court to fill the seat left by the resignation of Justice Abbi Silver. [6] [8] She is the first African American woman and the first Asian American to serve on the Nevada Supreme Court. [2] [9]
On appeal, the Nevada Supreme Court in a 5-2 ruling on Sept. 6 reversed the judge's decision and barred the Green Party from the ballot, finding its signatures were invalid and that even a ...