Legal Opinion · Dissent
Carrigan v. Commission on Ethics
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided July 29, 2010No. 51920Published
1DissentPickering, J.
Before today, no published decision has held that an elected local official engages in core political speech when he or she votes on an individual land use matter. Likewise, no published decision *289reviewing the ethical propriety of such a vote has subjected the applicable legislative prohibition against conflicts of interest to strict scrutiny or invalidated it on overbreadth grounds. Because I believe charting this course is both unprecedented and unwise, I respectfully dissent.
Separation of powers
Our decision in Commission on Ethics v. Hardy, 125 Nev. 285, 212 P.3d 1098 (2009), on which the…
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- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Garcetti v. CeballosSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
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