On February 5, 2026, Eighth Judicial District Court Chief Judge Jerry Wiese signed an order in the administrative matter of general, civil, probate, and family case reassignments. See Administrative Order 26-01 (PDF file to download).
Most notably, Administrative Order 26-01 cites NRS 3.025 and ECR 1.30(b) and orders that:
- 200 open civil cases currently assigned to Department 5 aged 24 months or less shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 26.
- 50 open civil cases currently assigned to Department 8 aged 24 months or less shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 26.
- 250 open civil cases currently assigned to Department 29 aged 24 months or less shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 26.
- 2,290 open probate cases currently assigned to Department 26 shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 5.
- 2,290 open probate cases currently assigned to Department 26 shall be randomly selected and reassigned to Department 8.
- All remaining open probate cases currently assigned to Department 26 shall be reassigned to Department 29.
- All closed probate cases shall be equitably distributed among Departments 5, 8 and 29.
- All future probate cases shall be randomly assigned and equitably distributed among Departments 5, 8 and 29.
- Department 26 shall be designated an All-Civil department for future case assignments.
- All eviction appeals currently assigned to Department 29 shall be reassigned to Department 17.
- All eviction appeals currently assigned to Department 11 shall be reassigned to Department 14.
- All future eviction appeals cases shall be randomly assigned and equitably distributed between Departments 14 and 17.
- The aforementioned general civil, probate and eviction appeal case reassignments shall take effect on February 9, 2026.
- Court administration shall publish the general civil, probate and eviction appeal case reassignments affected by this order on this court’s website no later than February 8, 2026.
- The following Family Division case reassignments described below shall take effect on March 9, 2026.
- All cases currently assigned to Department X shall be reassigned to Department D, and Department D shall be designated as a department receiving future Civil-Domestic case assignments.
- All cases currently assigned to Department D, excepting Juvenile Protection-Sex Abuse cases, shall be reassigned to Department X, and Department X shall be designated as a department receiving future Dependency case assignments.
- All Juvenile Protection-Sex Abuse cases currently assigned to Department D shall be reassigned to Department L, and Department L shall be designated as a department receiving future Juvenile Protection-Sex Abuse case assignments.
- All Juvenile Mental Health cases currently assigned to Department L shall be reassigned to Department X, and Department X shall also be designated as a department receiving future Juvenile Mental Health case assignments.
- Court administration shall publish the Family Division case reassignments affected by this order.