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Summary Of Nc-Dsh, Inc. V. Garner, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 50, Amy C. Ma
Summary Of Nc-Dsh, Inc. V. Garner, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 50, Amy C. Ma
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from a district court order vacating a stipulated final judgment under NRCP 60(b) for fraud on the court.
Summary Of In Re Estate Of Miller, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. 42, Daniel M. Ryan
Summary Of In Re Estate Of Miller, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. 42, Daniel M. Ryan
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
This case is an appeal and cross-appeal from the district court’s order denying the defendant’s motion for attorney fees but awarding costs in a case pertaining to the distribution of the decedent’s (Rose Miller’s) estate.
Summary Of Bower V. Harrah’S Laughlin, Inc., 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 37, John Ward
Summary Of Bower V. Harrah’S Laughlin, Inc., 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 37, John Ward
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
No abstract provided.
Summary Of Foster V. Dingwall, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. 6, Daniel M. Ryan
Summary Of Foster V. Dingwall, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. 6, Daniel M. Ryan
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
This case pertained to a contracts action. Appellants appealed the district court’s decision to strike the appellants’ pleadings and enter a default judgment against them as a discovery sanction, as well as the district court’s decision to award compensatory damages and attorney and special master fees to the appellees
Chief William's Ghost: The Problematic Persistence Of The Duty To Sit Doctrine, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Chief William's Ghost: The Problematic Persistence Of The Duty To Sit Doctrine, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
The duty to sit concept or “doctrine”—or at least what I term the “pernicious” version of the concept—emphasizes a judge's obligation to hear and decide cases unless there is a compelling ground for disqualification and creates a situation in which judges are erroneously pushed to resolve close disqualification issues against recusal when the presumption should run in exactly the opposite direction. In close cases, judges should err on the side of recusal in order to enhance public confidence in the judiciary and to ensure that subtle, subconscious, or hard-to-prove bias, prejudice, or partiality does not influence decision-making. The pernicious version …
Playing Forty Questions: Responding To Justice Roberts' Concerns In Caperton And Some Tentative Answers About Operationalizing Judicial Recusal And Due Process, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Playing Forty Questions: Responding To Justice Roberts' Concerns In Caperton And Some Tentative Answers About Operationalizing Judicial Recusal And Due Process, Jeffrey W. Stempel
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The Chief Justice of the United States would probably have excelled as a negative debater in high school forensics competitions. Good negative debaters are, as my high school English teacher put it, “great point-pickers” in that they frequently challenge affirmative proposals with a series of “what if?” or “how about?” or “what would you do if?” questions designed to leave the affirmative resolution bleeding to death of a thousand cuts. Less charitable observers might call it nit-picking. After reading Chief Justice Roberts's dissenting opinion in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., one can easily imagine him as a high school …