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The Washoe County Library-Sparks Branch, at a prominent corner location at 814 Victorian St. in Sparks, Nevada, is a historic building that was designed by Nevada architect Frederick J. DeLongchamps and was built in 1931. Also known as Sparks Justice Court, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]
Corrine Sparks is a Canadian judge. She was the first Black Canadian woman to become a judge in Canada, and the first black judge in the province of Nova Scotia. [1] Her decision in the case R v S (RD), which was controversially overturned on appeal, was later upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in a leading decision on reasonable apprehension of bias.
The Chief Justice rotates on the Supreme Court of Nevada, almost always to a judge who is in their final two years of their term. Following the expansions of the court in 1967 and 1999, judges began to split what had traditionally been a two-year term between two or three justices, allowing each justice the opportunity to be Chief Justice during their six-year term.
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The Justice Court has gone from having 17,438 cases in 2020 to 23,825 in 2023. The court had zero weddings and a handful of evictions and small claims cases in 2020. Last year, it had 174 weddings ...
On the left, meanwhile, Trump’s election has relit far flung hopes among some for a sudden retirement by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal, and for President Joe Biden to ...
The District Courts also hear appeals from the limited jurisdiction state courts, which are composed of 17 Municipal Courts (which handle involving traffic ticket and misdemeanor violations of ordinances occurring within the city limits of incorporated municipalities) and 45 Justice Courts (which handle misdemeanor crime and traffic matters ...
Dennis v. Sparks was the first opinion of the Court since the early 19th century where members of the Court were not referred to as "Mr. Justice." In February 1979, Justice John Paul Stevens participated in a moot court at the University of Notre Dame.