All posts tagged "Nevada Supreme Court"

(Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected a request to determine if the Legislature’s “single subject” rule requiring bills to be limited in scope is constitutional. The challenge was brought by Citizen Outreach and two other groups that argued last year that the single-subject rule for citizen-backed initiative...

(Peter Hennessey) – Oral arguments in the case of Gary Schmidt (appellant) vs. Ben Kieckhefer (respondent) will be heard before the full panel of the Nevada Supreme Court. The court order specifying the time and place is in the court document 15-23090. Date: Wednesday, Sept 2, 2015 Time: 1:30 PM Place: Nevada Supreme Court, 201 South...

(Office of the State Treasurer) – CARSON CITY – On Friday, the Nevada Supreme Court affirmed the District Court’s...

(Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation) – Las Vegas — The Nevada Supreme Court today ruled in favor of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, saying a lower district court was wrong to dismiss the Institute’s case calling on the Clark County School District to release its directory of taxpayer-funded and government-issued teacher email addresses....

(Thomas Mitchell) – No doubt about it, the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows Florida to bar...

My non-profit grassroots advocacy organization recently won a huge free speech victory in a Nevada Supreme Court...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – Imagine that, less than three years ago, you helped create a new government program. On multiple occasions, you testified before legislative committees on how to set it up. You contributed an amendment to the legislation establishing the program. Once the bill was passed, you and your colleagues mobilized to...

(Kyle Gillis and Steven Miller/NPRI) – Is the statewide home-foreclosure modification program run by the Nevada Supreme Court actually unconstitutional? Nevada Second District Judge Patrick Flanagan wants to know. And since it’s a real question that could seriously impact the State of Nevada in multiple, powerful ways, he’s joined the state, represented...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – The Nevada Supreme Court dealt a blow to Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget proposal on May 26, leading him to abandon his opposition to tax hikes and support higher state payroll and sales taxes for the next two years. And the Court may not be done yet. With less than...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – The Nevada Supreme Court today upheld a lower court decision saying that Democrat and Republican party officials should pick their candidates to run in a special election to fill a vacancy in Congressional District 2. The 6-1 ruling rejected a finding by Democrat Secretary of State Ross...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Attorneys for the state Democrat and Republican parties argued their cases Tuesday before the Nevada Supreme Court over whether they should pick their candidates for the special election to fill the vacant 2nd Congressional District seat, or whether it should be a “ballot royale.” The Democrat Party...