REID v. WOOFTER

No. 6647.

498 P.2d 361 (1972)

Honorable Robert L. REID, Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas Township, Nevada, Appellant, v. Roy WOOFTER, District Attorney of Clark County, Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 21, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodman & Snyder, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Robert List, Atty. Gen., Carson City, Roy A. Woofter, Dist. Atty., and Raymond Jeffers and Charles L. Garner, Deputy Dist. Attys., Las Vegas, for respondent.


OPINION

BATJER, Justice:

Appellant, Justice of the Peace of the Las Vegas Township, is appealing from a judgment of the district declaring N.R.S. 122.080 constitutional, thereby prohibiting him from performing marriage ceremonies in the Las Vegas Township.

N.R.S. 122.0801 was amended in 1969 to provide that: "Any justice of the peace in the state who solemnizes marriages or performs...

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