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Saturday, December 23, 2006
Courts - Nevada high court rule to require judges to disclose past relationships with attorneys who worked for them as law clerks
The Las Vegas Review Journal has a story today by Sean Whaley that reports:
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Supreme Court added a new rule to its code of judicial conduct on Friday to require judges to disclose past relationships with attorneys who worked for them as law clerks.For background, start with this Sept. 3, 2006 ILB entry.It also adopted a rule allowing the peremptory challenges of senior judges in some cases.
The disclosure rule, one of several proposed by retiring Chief Justice Bob Rose, will require judges to disclose law clerk relationships within three years of their employment. An opposing attorney appearing before the judge would then have the opportunity to ask the judge to disqualify himself based on the relationship.
"A party or the party's lawyer might reasonably consider another attorney's recent service to the judge as a former law clerk to be a relationship relevant to the question of disqualification," the new rule states in part. * * *
The rules, along with others still being considered by the court, were proposed following a series of articles by the Los Angeles Times about the Nevada judiciary.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 23, 2006 11:00 AM
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