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Nevada Supreme Court denies latest Halverson petition

Late this afternoon, the Nevada Supreme Court issued its sixth opinion of the day: Halverson v. Miller. The Court denies Judge Halverson's petition for a writ of mandamus which challenged her two-year term of office under Senate Bill 195. She had argued that the Legislature exceeded its authority by providing for a term of office of less than six years. "We conclude that the senate bill does not violate the constitution because the constitution provides the Legislature with the ability to create new judicial positions for less than six-year initial terms in order to place judicial positions on the same election cycle. Long-standing precedent from this court has settled the constitutionality of statutes creating judicial positions with shortened initial terms to preserve a uniform general election cycle...continue to full post

Full post as published by Harmful Error on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).