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- ↑ Guinn v. Nevada State Legislature, 71 P.3d 1269 (Nev. 2003).
- 1 2 Bronson D. Bills, "A Penny for the Court's Thoughts? The High Price of Judicial Elections", Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy (Winter 2008).
- 1 2 Melinda Gann Hall and Matthew J. Zalewski, "Campaigning for the High Court Bench", in Chris W. Bonneau and Melinda Gann Hall, eds., Judicial Elections in the 21st Century (2017), p. 58.
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