Valley Health Sys., LLC v. Murray

Summary

The court held that the Nevada Constitution permits both the governor to designate lower-court judges and the chief justice to assign senior justices as temporary substitutes for disqualified Supreme Court justices. It harmonized the constitutional provisions by treating the governor's and chief justice's powers as complementary rather than exclusive. The court therefore overruled the objection to the senior-justice assignments and denied the motion to require gubernatorial designations.