Halverson Seeks Stay of Discipline Proceedings
Here’s the latest in the never ending saga of Judge Elizabeth Halverson. The judge has filed an Emergency Motion for Stay of Proceedings, requesting that her Emergency Petition for Writ of Prohibition or Mandamus be resolved before she be required to answer the formal statement of charges filed by the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline.
You may recall that the basis of the Petition for Writ was that the Commission had failed to act with appropriate speed in bring the formal charges. Filed prior to the issuance of the formal charges, the Petition calls the delay inexcusable and asks the Supreme Court to prohibit the Commission from taking further proceedings. Thus, there is just a touch of irony in Judge Halverson’s request that those proceedings, now formally commenced, be further delayed.
However, since the Supreme Court did order the Commission to respond to the Petition, even though by the time of that order, the formal charges had been issued, there is also a certain sense in having the issue of the writ resolved first.
I’ll let you know how the Supreme Court rules.
