What a request for submission is in Nevada courts — and where it does not exist

Statewide motion practice in Nevada district courts is governed by the District Court Rules, and Rule 13 is the motions rule. DCR 13 sets the baseline structure — how motions are made, supported, opposed, and brought on for decision — that applies in every judicial district unless a local rule elaborates on it. A researcher confirming the current mechanics of submission should start with the DCR text itself, because the rule text, not any summary of it, controls.

Nevada’s two largest judicial districts layer local rules over the statewide framework. In the Second Judicial District Court — Washoe County, sitting in Reno — the Washoe District Court Rules elaborate how motions are briefed and submitted for decision. In the Eighth Judicial District Court — Clark County, sitting in Las Vegas — civil motion practice is elaborated in the Eighth Judicial District Court Rules, with EDCR 2.20 addressing motions.

The practical consequence: the correct form of a request for submission, the timing conventions around it, and whether the court sets a hearing by default all vary between districts. A litigant in Reno reads the WDCR alongside DCR 13; a litigant in Las Vegas reads the EDCR alongside DCR 13. The same phrase — request for submission — names the same concept in both districts, but the local rule supplies the operative detail.

Nevada’s court self-help centers publish request-for-submission forms for self-represented litigants, along with instructions for completing and filing them. The statewide self-help portal at nvcourts.gov is the starting point; the Second and Eighth Judicial District self-help centers maintain district-specific versions matching their local rules. Using the form published by the district where the case is pending — rather than a generic template — avoids the most common rejection reasons at the clerk’s counter.

Searchers frequently look for a “request for submission Nevada Supreme Court” form. That search conflates two different procedural worlds. The request for submission is a district-court device. At the Nevada Supreme Court and the Nevada Court of Appeals, parties do not file a request for submission to obtain a decision. An appeal is submitted for decision after briefing closes — and after oral argument, if the court orders argument — under the Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure. Submission at the appellate level is something the court does on its own calendar, not something a party requests by filing a form.

A self-represented appellant waiting on a fully briefed appeal therefore has no submission form to file; the case is in the court’s hands under the NRAP timetable. A district-court litigant waiting on a fully briefed motion, by contrast, may be waiting precisely because no request for submission has been filed. Sorting out which posture applies is the first diagnostic step.

This reference describes civil motion practice. Criminal motion practice in Nevada runs on the framework in the Nevada Revised Statutes and the same district-court rules, with its own timing constraints; the post-verdict motions that matter in serious felony cases are treated in the NRS 176.555 reference in this series, and the scope of Mr. McKenna’s serious-felony engagements is described on the criminal defense practice page of this site.

This piece is educational reference material for people researching Nevada procedure — self-represented litigants and referring lawyers alike — and is not legal advice about any particular case. Procedural rules change, districts amend their local rules, and courts revise their forms; the current text of DCR 13, the applicable local rules, and the forms published by the court where the case is pending control over anything summarized here.