Nevada Court of Appeals

The court was created by a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that was approved by voters on November 4, 2014.

In 2014, each Supreme Court Justice handled a caseload of roughly 354 cases per year.

All appeals are still filed with the Supreme Court of Nevada, but are then screened to determine whether they involve truly novel issues of law or important issues of public policy, as opposed to contentions that the trial court erred by failing to apply existing precedent.

Based on historical data, about one third of future Nevada appeals are expected to fall into the latter category and will be reassigned to the Court of Appeals, thereby enabling the state Supreme Court to focus on deciding hard questions in the remaining cases.

At its inception, the Court of Appeals consisted of three judges appointed by governor Brian Sandoval.