Nevada Court of Appeals

The Supreme Court amended the Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure (NRAP) to incorporate changes due to the voters' approval of the Court of Appeals.  You can find the order (PDF) dated December 18, 2014 on Administrative Docket (ADKT) 501.  Rule 17 describes which cases are retained by the Supreme Court and which are assigned to the Court of Appeals.  The amended rules are not yet incorporated in the NRAP published in the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) and posted on the legislature's website. 

Rule Amendments

Don't forget there is a lag between when a rule is adopted/amended/repealed and when it makes it into the print NRS.  There is a new sortable table available on the Supreme Court's website which has links to the Administrative Docket and orders amending court rules.  The table includes the ADKT number, rules affected, links to both the ADKT and order, a short description of the amendment and effective date and each column is sortable.

Attorneys practicing before the Nevada Supreme Court might be interested in the 11/4/11 order on ADKT 467 amending NRAP 3C, 3E, 28.1, 28.2, 32, 40, and 40A and Associated Forms - "Concerns format and length of briefs, fast track statements and responses, and petitions for rehearing and reconsideration" which is effective 1/3/12. 

Application for Association of Counsel Under SCR 42

Supreme Court Rule 42 allows for the practice of attorneys not admitted in Nevada. The State Bar of Nevada has established a procedure in accordance with SCR 42 and has posted a packet on its website (links are halfway down the right-hand column) containing the application form (.pdf) (.doc).

2009 NRS Reprint

The Legislative Counsel Bureau just posted the 2009 NRS Reprint online. Remember, the online NRS does not include case annotations. Also, you have to check the Supreme Court's site for orders amending court rules.

Nevada Court Rules

Nevada court rules are available on Nevada Legislature's website. The legislature's version conforms to the print edition of the NRS, which as of today's writing is the 2007 Reprint with 2008 Revision 2 replacement pages (notated (2008) R1 in the footer of each replacement page).

Court rules are not searchable, but they are indexed in the Nevada Revised Statutes. The index is quite voluminous, but here's a trick to navigate it. To find the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure, select a section of the alphabet, such as "C" for civil procedure and when the page loads, click on Edit Find, type a text string such as CIVIL PROCEDURE in all capital letters in the box, and click on the "Match Case" check box (in Firefox) or click on Edit Find and then click on the "Options" drop down list (in Internet Explorer) to jump to that index term. In this case, the Rules of Civil Procedure are not on the C index page, but there is a "see" entry with a link to the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure.

CIVIL PROCEDURE, NEVADA RULES OF (See NEVADA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE)

Since the Court Rules on the legislature's page are only as current as the print NRS, researchers are advised to check the Court's website for administrative orders amending the rules. In the NRCP example, there four orders (ADKTs 276 order dated 2/6/09; 426 order dated 2/6/09; 405 order dated 4/29/09 and 388 order dated 11/17/09) which have not yet been incorporated in the legislature's online version.