Two Family Court judges received especially impressive scores in the Review-Journal’s 2025 Judicial Performance Evaluation, but lawyers think two others should be ousted.
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Katelyn Newberg joined the Review-Journal's investigative team in February 2025. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter and began covering courts and legal affairs in October 2021. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
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After seven days of the Legislature’s special session, a controversial film tax credit bill failed and lawmakers considered a resolution addressing mail-in ballots.
Gov. Joe Lombardo had called lawmakers back to Carson City to address an expansive list of legislation he said could not wait for the next regular session in 2027.
The legislation, backed by Gov. Joe Lombardo, changes multiple sections of Nevada’s criminal justice laws.
Special session day 6: Lawmakers may add housing bill to agenda, school zones bill heads to governor
Sen. Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, said lawmakers have been preparing a petition to amend the governor’s special session agenda in order to add legislation regulating corporate homeownership.
Two bills backed by Gov. Joe Lombardo have yet to be heard by the full Nevada Senate after five days of the special Legislative session.
Four bills have passed both chambers of the Nevada Legislature and could soon be signed by the governor as a special legislative session enters its fourth day on Sunday.
The proposal followed the funding lapse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the federal government shutdown. Senate Democrats said they wanted to create a similar system run by the state in case of future funding lapses.
Proponents say the legislation is necessary due to lawmaker’s security concerns, but journalism and open government groups oppose the move to hide public information.
Gov. Joe Lombardo called the special session to address more than a dozen different pieces of legislation. The most talked about bills have included an effort to attract the film industry to Southern Nevada and the governor’s widesweeping crime bill.
A special session of the Nevada Legislature started with dramatics on Thursday when call to remove a bill proposing increased tax breaks for the film industry from consideration resulted in a tie vote.
Attorneys giving opening statements on Wednesday told jurors to “buckle up” for the lurid details of 47-year-old Devyn Michaels’ trial.
The Resort Corridor Court led to an increase in the number of orders banning criminal defendants from the Strip. It could be revived in a special session.
Although the governor’s crime bill failed in June, language related to the Resort Corridor Court could be brought to legislators in a special session.