It has been trying to recover for years. The panel also suggested a major change in the way Nevada elects judges. Vacant judicial seats would be filled by a regular election with several candidates. But sitting judges would face re-election with no opponents. Voters would simply decide whether to retain or bounce the judges from office.
All judges now can face opponents in every election.
Efforts to change the current system have met with failure in past Legislatures. Establish a special committee at the Supreme Court level to review what is a public document and consider guidelines that classify all court documents as public. Recognize the rights of citizens to represent themselves in civil trial courts. The commission wants to ensure that the poor can handle their own case and suggested standardized, multilingual court forms for the most common pleadings, briefs, orders and other documents. These would apply mostly in family court.