On August 30, 2022, the Nevada Supreme Court filed two petitions from the Las Vegas Township Justice Court, proposing amendments to, and enactment of a new rule, regarding the eviction process. ADKT 602 proposes changes to the Las Vegas Justice Court Local Rules of Practice 6.2 and 6.4, and the addition of new rule 6.8. […]
On August 26, 2022, the Las Vegas Township Justice Court filed Administrative Order (AO) 22-07, which supersedes AO 15-03 and assigns cases involving driving or operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance and vehicular crimes resulting in death or substantial bodily harm to a single department. Cases in which the defendants […]
On August 16, 2022, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an order in ADKT 0597 adopting a pilot program related to the unbundling of legal services in enumerated family court case types. The proposed amendments can be found in Exhibit A attached to the order. Also attached are a proposed notice of limited-scope representation (Exhibit B) and […]
On May 26, 2022, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an order in ADKT 0598 to conduct a public hearing to consider proposed Rules of Conduct for Lawyers Representing Children in Welfare Cases. The proposed Rules of Conduct can be found attached to the order as Exhibit A. A second hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 22, […]
On August 2, 2022, the Second Judicial District Court issued Administrative Order (AO) 2022-12, ending the district-wide Trial Stack Jury Trial Setting for its civil docket. Commencing with Trial Stack 19, on August 23, 2022, all trials will be reset on individual departments’ calendars for dates certain. The order states that, for all matters currently […]
On July 27, 2022, the Las Vegas Justice Court issued revised Administrative Order (AO) 22-07, which assigns certain vehicular crime cases to a single department. According to the order, its intent “is to limit the assignment of cases to this docket to those involving driving or operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol or […]
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PostOn July 7, 2022, the City of Reno Municipal Court issued Administrative Order 2022-01 in preparation for Judge Dorothy Nash Holmes’ upcoming leave of absence, effective July 15, 2022. The order states that any pro tem judge assigned to Department 3 in the absence of Judge Holmes shall be subject to a temporary exemption to […]
After serving more than 15 years on the District Court bench, Judge Michael P. Villani is retiring. Judge Villani was appointed to the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada in April 2007. Following receiving his law degree from the California Western School of Law, Judge Villani served as a Deputy District Attorney. He also worked […]
On June 30, 2022, the Eighth Judicial District Court issued Administrative Order (AO) 22-10, reassigning cases in the Civil/Criminal Division of the court. Department 9 will have a civil assignment. Fifty percent of civil cases currently being heard by Department 1 will be reassigned to Department 9. All criminal cases being heard by Department 9 […]
At a recent judges meeting, Judge Jerry Wiese was selected by a majority vote of the district court bench to serve as the new chief to oversee the administrative functions of the Eighth Judicial District Court. Effective July 1, he will officially replace outgoing Chief Judge Linda Marie Bell, who has served two terms as […]
