Posted on February 17, 2015
Posted by: Jon J. Carlston
In November 2014, voters in Nevada voted to amend the Nevada constitution to create an intermediate appellate court. Until the passage of this amendment, Nevada was one of ten states that did not have an intermediate appellate court. The Nevada Supreme Court was the only appellate court in Nevada hearing and deciding appeals from final judgments entered by Nevada's 82 district court judges. As a result, Nevada's Supreme Court was one of the busiest in the nation. Each of its seven justices was averaging approximately 333 cases per year - more than three times the American Bar Association's ("ABA") recommended 100 cases per year.