Millen v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

In this case, we consider the propriety of using a recusal list when determining whether to assign cases to a district court judge. A judge’s recusal list is a registry of persons with respect to whom the judge has some disqualifying relationship that would warrant the judge’s disqualification from hearing the case. Recusal lists keep track of such disqualifications and automatically trigger a judge’s recusal when a case is filed. Judges use recusal lists to streamline the case assignment process, namely to avoid having cases assigned to them when they would…