Everyone's favorite embarassment to the Nevada judiciary, District Judge Elizabeth Halverson, requested on Friday that the Nevada Supreme Court revoke their order removing her from the bench. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports Halverson's lawyers are arguing the order should be lifted because the state's Judicial Disciplinary Commission has still not brought formal discliplinary charges against Halverson.
Judge Halverson has become Vegas' most infamous judge after making national headlines for:
- being banned from the courthouse by the Chief Judge of the District Court Kathy Hardcastle for Judge Halverson's decision to allow her two private body guards to bypass courthouse security
- complaints from staff that Judge Halverson treated them like servants, ordering one law clerk to give her footrubs
- allegations from a baliff that Judge Halverson repeatedly asked him to shoot her husband
- insulting lawyers for not contributing to her election campaign
- falling asleep during a criminal trial
And the soap opera continues. Thank you for not laying down Judge Halverson. You're just the kind of news that keeps a tabloid legal blog posting.
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