Opinion No. (1983)

REQUESTED BY: Senator Howard Lamb Member of the Legislature State Capitol Building Lincoln, Nebraska 68509

Dear Senator Lamb:

This is in response to your letter of February 4, 1983, in which you request our opinion regarding whether there is a conflict between Article V, Section 21, of the Nebraska Constitution, and language in LB 422 which would allow the Supreme Court to provide for the appointment of an additional judge in a judicial district other than that in which a judicial vacancy has occurred.

LB 422 provides, insofar as relevant here, that:

`Whenever a vacancy occurs in one district,…