- law dawg
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Like we did in 2024, we’re going to try and keep judicial election related stories in separate posts so that the comments are focused and easier to find later for anyone doing research regarding the judicial elections.
- Michele Fiore seeks election to judicial seat she’s suspended from. Plus, Vincent Ochoa won’t seek reelection. [TNI; RJ]
- Attorneys file for seats held by judges who scored low on RJ survey. [RJ]
Quite a mad rush to start the week and then…relative crickets. Guess nobody wants to work for a 2013 entry-level associate’s salary these days.
With government pension.
The mad rush is usually the incumbents and people jumping on the empty seats to scare other people away from those races. If you are a challenger, often you will wait to see which races draw which candidates and then jockey at the last minute.
This. Next Friday afternoon will be one to watch!!
Anyone running against Herndon? We’ve had some perennial candidates out there.
“Government pension.” Meh.
Is there a link to see Supreme Court filings? Very curious to see if Herndon gets a legitimate opponent and to see if Pickering files. I also wonder if Denton will file for Pickering’s seat if she retires.
Also, Danielle Tarmu running in Dept. 26 seems to be a civil practitioner. Maybe one new civil bar judge?
Danielle Tarmu is wonderful. I will support her.
Agree. Danielle is fantastic and knows her stuff.
. Pickering filed.
Department 24 (Ballou) is an all-civil department. Only person who has filed is a DA.
LOL. Of course.
Heard Eric Johnson may be getting a contender….
There are much more vulnerable departments than 20.
Funny of you to think the docket assignments won’t change after this election
The assignments are not fixed; they are determined by the chief judge depending on who wins the seat. If a DA wins, they will get a standard criminal/ civil split.
No. There have to be a minimum of 8 all civil judges (maybe it’s 7). Right now, DC24 is all civil. Unless a split docket judge gives up their criminal calendar, 24 will remain civil. No one is giving up their split docket anytime soon.
There are a finite number of criminal tracks. That structure is based on the structure of the DA office. Unless they add a track (which would mean a a new Justice court and two new district courts get added), the structure isn’t changing and 24 remains civil.
The last split happened when S Johnson gave up her split docket and went all civil. Unless another judge gives up their split docket, 24 remains civil.
This is why Gall has a split docket. She was forced to go split when Ballou was forced to go all civil. I supposed Gall could agree to give up her split docket which means 24 could go split. Unless someone with seniority decides the want a split vs all civil docket. Which I can see happening.
Every male is getting an opponent. Incumbents Johnson, Hardy, Reynolds. Though Timmy is probably safe.
Denton and Israel’s seats currently only have a male in the race so come next Friday, females are jumping in.
If anyone thinks those three are easily defeated because of voter gender preference, they are in for a surprise.
You presume voters actually have any knowledge or do any research regarding judicial candidates.
With the randomness of clark county voters, you could easily write your name on a ballot that only has 1 candidate and have a 50/50 chance of winning. Surprised there aren’t more people running in the EJDC race.