Nevada in the United States
Legal Materials
The Nevada Revised Statutes and the Nevada Administrative Code, the Nevada Legislature, new laws and Supreme Court Opinions are all posted by the State of Nevada. Links to Nevada government agencies and other primary legal materials are posted by FindLaw, the Georgetown Law Library and Washlaw. Primary legal materials are also available from Lexis, Westlaw and LOIS. Subscription services Versuslaw Fastcase have cases back to 1950; Google Scholar has cases back to 1950 for free. Supreme and appellate court cases are published in the Pacific Reporter.
Nevada legal resources are discussed in Nevada Legal Research Guide (W.S. Hein, 2012). “Nevada Practice Materials: A Selective Annotated Bibliography” by G. LeGrande Fletcher was published in 91(2) Law Library Journal 313 (Spring 1999) is dated but still useful for historical information.
To check on the status of pending bills, when the legislature is in session, call the Nevada Legislative Hotline. The Hotline phone number changes each year, but you can always get it by calling the Nevada State Library (775-684-3360). For information about bills when the legislature is not in session, call the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s Research Library (775-684-6827).
The legislative history materials for Nevada bills back to 1865 are posted by the Research Division of the Nevada Legislature.
Nevada does not have a unified database for docket sheets and case information, but some jurisdictions have their own systems. You can look up information for courts inWashoe County (including Reno) and Clark County (including Las Vegas). Las Vegas Township Justice Court civil dockets are also available on the Clark County website. In addition, there is a searchable docket database for the City of North Las Vegas Municipal Court. See the Docket Sheets entry for more resources.
For questions about Nevada legal materials, copies and/or inter-library loan, try calling the University of Nevada’s law library (702-784-6039) or the Clark County Law Library(702-455-4696). For government documents, call the Nevada State Library and Archives (775-684-3360).
Note: We linked the resources to archive.org in an effort to decrease the number of broken links cited.
For more U.S. state primary law resources, see, for example:
- U.S. State Law: Constitutional
- U.S. State Cases
- U.S. State Law: Judicial Rules
- U.S. State Legislative: Bills
- U.S. State Law: Executive & Administrative
- U.S. State Law: Municipal
Topics Covered by the Nevada Legal Encyclopedia
Note: More detailed information about this State is provided in the Nevada jurisdictional legal Encyclopedia, which tie together Nevada statutory and case law.
Topics include:
- Nevada Statutes
- NV Cases & Case Law
- Nevada Legal Websites
- NV State Government Info
- Nevada Counties
- Nevada Cities
- Nevada Legislation
- NV Court Reporters/Depositions
- Nevada Legal Forms
- Nevada Courts
- Nevada Local Court Rules
- NV State Bar/Legal Associations
- Nevada Law Enforcement
- Nevada Media Sources
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