Bowman v. Eighth Judicial District Court Ex Rel. Clark County

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• holding that the clerk has a ministerial duty to accept and file documents unless given specific directions from the district court to the contrary
• stating that absent contrary instructions from the court, the clerk has a ministerial duty to file documents presented in the proper form and has no judicial discretion to determine a document's propriety
• reversing Judge Goldman’s order holding the clerk of the court in contempt
• clerk has a ministerial duty to accept and file documents if those documents are in proper form; clerk must not exercise any judicial discretion
• duty of district court clerk to accept and file documents is ministerial, involving no judicial discretion
• “The clerk has aministerial duty to accept and file documents. She has no authority to pass upon the validity of instruments presented for filing.”

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