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WHITEHEAD v. COMM'N ON JUD. DISCIPLINE

No. 24598.

908 P.2d 219 (1995)

In re Petition for a WRIT OF PROHIBITION or in the Alternative for a Writ of Mandamus. The Honorable Jerry Carr WHITEHEAD, Petitioner, v. NEVADA COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 15, 1995

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ohlson & Springgate, Reno; Hamilton & Lynch, Reno; Gentile and Porter, Las Vegas; Laura Wightman FitzSimmons, Las Vegas, for Petitioner.

Leonard I. Gang, Carson City, for Respondent.

Peter Alpert, Las Vegas; Gerald Stern, New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae Association of Disciplinary Counsel.

Leo Puccinelli, Elko, for Amicus Curiae Ad Hoc Committee for the Preservation of an Independent Judiciary.

Geoffrey Giles, Reno, for Amicus Curiae American Judicature Society.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

The following opinion and judgment of the court constitutes an unprecedented but necessary response to a certain document filed by the dissenting justice and two disqualified justices in one of the court's administrative files on September 15, 1995. The document in question purports to be an "order" declaring actions of this court to be "void," and otherwise overruling substantive rulings of the constitutionally-empaneled court sitting...

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