City of Las Vegas Downtown Redevelopment Agency v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada

OPINION

SUMMARY

The case underlying this original petition involves Harry, John, and Carol Pappas’s successful request to have Judge Mark R. Denton recuse himself from an eminent domain case involving the Pappases and the City of Las Vegas Downtown Redevelopment Agency (the “Agency”), which condemned the Pappases’ property in order to develop the Fremont Street Experience project in downtown Las Vegas. The Pappases’ request was based on their conclusion that Judge Denton’s “impartiality might reasonably be questioned” under Nevada’s Code of Judicial Conduct (“NCJC”) because Judge Denton had…