Governor v. Nevada State Legislature

OPINION

By the Court,

Agosti, C. J.:

The Governor of Nevada has petitioned this court for a writ of mandamus declaring the Legislature to be in violation of the Nevada Constitution, and compelling the Legislature to fulfill its constitutional duty to approve a balanced budget — including an annual tax to defray the state’s estimated expenses for the biennium beginning July 1, 2003, and appropriations to fund public education during that fiscal period — by a time certain. We agree that our intervention is appropriate in this extraordinary circumstance.

The Legislature failed to fund education in…