MATTER OF HALVERSON

No. 49876.

169 P.3d 1161 (2007)

In the Matter of the Honorable Elizabeth HALVERSON, District Judge, County of Clark, State of Nevada.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arrascada & Arrascada, Ltd., and John L. Arrascada, Reno; Gentile DePalma, Ltd., and Dominic P. Gentile and William H. Gamage, Las Vegas, for Judge Elizabeth Halverson.

Dorothy Nash Holmes, Carson City; David F. Sarnowski, Executive Director, Carson City, for Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.


OPINION

By the Court, MAUPIN, C.J.:

INTRODUCTION

This appeal raises several issues of first impression concerning a rarely used but formidable power available to the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline: its constitutional and statutory authority to temporarily suspend a judge, before conducting a formal hearing with accompanying due process protections, when the Commission determines that the judge poses a "substantial threat...

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