| 50,000th Case Filed At Nevada Supreme Court |
| Monday, 13 August 2007 11:45 | |||
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The Nevada Supreme Court Clerk's Office filed case number 50,000 today (Aug. 13, 2007).
Cases have been filed sequentially since Nevada became a state on Oct. 31, 1864, although the first case actually was not filed until 1865, according to Clerk of the Court Janette Bloom. It took 112 years before Nevada reached the 10,000 mark in Supreme Court filings. Since Aug. 12, 1977, 40,000 cases have been filed, with 10,000 of those filed during the last five years alone. That means the Supreme Court must now handle in five years the number of cases it handled during Nevada's first 112 years. To cope with the workload increase, the Nevada Supreme Court expanded from its original three justices to five justices in 1967, and then to seven justices in 1999. The last increase allowed the court to sit in three-justice panels for many cases or as the full court for the most important matters.
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