LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s authorized battle with the Nevada Fee on Ethics will transfer again to a decrease courtroom after a Wednesday ruling by the state Supreme Courtroom.
The Nevada Supreme Courtroom dominated in Lombardo’s favor, reversing a Carson Metropolis District Courtroom resolution.
A marketing campaign advert reveals Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo throughout his 2022 race towards incumbent Steve Sisolak.
In July 2023, the ethics fee discovered Lombardo responsible of violating ethics regulation after his marketing campaign posted 4 photographs of him carrying his county-issued sheriff’s badge on marketing campaign supplies. The fee dominated that violated a statute that bars the usage of authorities assets to safe a non-public curiosity with out warrant for every picture or video.
Lombardo sued the ethics fee after it censured and fined him $20,000 for campaigning whereas carrying his sheriff’s uniform. Lombardo defeated Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak in that 2022 marketing campaign.
The Nevada Supreme Courtroom, on the courtyard between the State Capitol and the Nevada Legislature in Carson Metropolis. (Greg Haas / 8NewsNow)
The district courtroom had dismissed Lombardo’s lawsuit as a result of attorneys did not serve the lawsuit to the Nevada Lawyer Normal’s Workplace (OAG) within the required 45 days after the ethics fee was notified he supposed to attraction the censure and nice. Lombardo’s attorneys argued that was pointless as a result of the OAG had already recused itself from the case, citing a battle of curiosity.
The Supreme Courtroom’s resolution retains Lombardo’s lawsuit alive.
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The courtroom cited a must resolve the lawsuit on its deserves fairly than dismissing it on what amounted to a technicality after the OAG recused itself. It additional dominated that denying an extension on the 45-day deadline served no goal, notably as a result of the OAG was served the day after the deadline.
Lombardo’s lawsuit argues that the ethics fee lacks authority within the matter as a result of half the fee’s members are appointed by the Nevada Legislature.
