The Nevada courts

The Supreme Court of Nevada

The Supreme Court of Nevada (seven justices) sits en banc and in panels. Every appeal is FILED there; the Court of Appeals receives cases by DEFLECTION under NRAP 17's assignment categories — the inverse of certiorari systems.

The Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals (three judges) decides the deflected docket; its dispositions are the working appellate law of the state.

The district courts (eleven judicial districts)

Eleven judicial districts hold the district courts — general jurisdiction above $15,000, exclusive equity, family, and probate. The 2nd (Washoe) and 8th (Clark) carry approved local books and host the mandatory arbitration program; DCR 5 makes every approved local book control over the statewide rules.

The justice courts

Justice courts (40 courts; the directory's 41st entry is Eureka Township's Beowawe department) take civil actions to $15,000 (NRS 4.370(1)), small claims to $10,000 (NRS 73.010; JCRCP 88-100), and summary evictions. JCRCP mirrors the NRCP post-ADKT 0607.

The municipal courts

Seventeen municipal courts hear ordinance violations and civil traffic infractions inside city limits — no ordinary civil suits.

The federal rim

The District of Nevada (Las Vegas and Reno) runs on its own Local Rules of Practice (FED-LR-NVD); the Ninth Circuit sits above.