Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Hump Day Roundup

The Nevada Parole Board's backlog will grow in June. (Nevada Appeal)

Harmful Error notes that Boyd School added four new faculty members. (UNLV Press Release)

Uh . . . Judge Halverson named "Hot Slut of the Day" by website. (dlisted.com)

Yucca Mountain dump opponent Joe Egan asked that his remains be spread over the proposed nuclear waste dump site and that the following eulogy be read: "Radwaste buried here only over my dead body." (KSBY)

A profile of Gordon & Rees, the San-Francisco-based firm (with a Vegas office) that has opened 10 offices outside of California in the past five years and now has more than 350 lawyers in 16 offices. (Lawjobs.com)

Endoscopy News
Dr. "Needles" Desai and his colleagues are expected to "plead the Fifth," which will stall the civil suits for years. (Las Vegas Sun) [it's a good legal tactic. maybe the plaintiffs should repay Dr. Needles by filling his Mercedes Benzes with used hypodermic needles--you know, just because it's an efficient way to dispose of medical waste and keep costs down].

Meanwhile, state legislators authored a letter criticizing state medical board Executive Director Tony Clark for refusing to comply with a police investigation and being misleading about his agency's response to the Hep-C crisis. (Las Vegas Sun) And the Governor says he will not name special counsel to investigate the doctors in the Hep-C crisis because that is the job of the state medical board. (Nevada Appeal)
The civil rights/sexual harassment case involving the state highway patrol has settled for $480,000. (Review-Journal)
Up north, Judge Steinheimer set the execution date for the rapist and killer of a 16 yr old girl (Reno Gazette-Journal)

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