Thurs Roundup

The Plaintiff in the Sands Corp. case delivered closing arguments to the jury yesterday, requesting they award $100 million in damages. (Review-Journal)

Why did all the a Federal Judge from Washington have to be brought in for the Noel Gage trial? Apparently Chief Judge of the U.S. District of Nevada Roger Hunt decided their involvement with Gage through Inns of Court would require all Federal Judges in the state to recuse themselves. (Las Vegas City Life--below the piece on Robert Downey, Jr.) George Knapp suggests it might have more to do with the desire of many judges not to be involved in trying a prominent local Plaintiff's hero. (Las Vegas City Life)

Clark Co. has joined all the other governmental entities challenging the Nevada Supreme Court's ruling that limits taxes on restaurant food. (Las Vegas Now)

Nevada's anti-Yucca legal hero Joseph Egan may have passed, but the fight goes on with his firm Egan, Fitzpatrick & Malsch still carrying the mantle. (Las Vegas Business Press)

Clark Co. is going after residents who are delinquent on their property taxes by publishing their names and the amount owed to the county in local newspapers. (Las Vegas Now)

Whoops. Clark Co. School District may end up paying more than $5 million to a construction company over an unpaid debt when it could have settled for $175,000 in 1997. (Las Vegas Sun)

In other lawyers-are-expensive news, the Clark Co. Library District and the non-profit Friends of the Library have realized their dispute is not worth the $44,000 in legal bills (Las Vegas Sun) [Interesting to note, they still haven't settled]

The Clark Co. D.A. has finally received notice that Charles Barkley paid his Wynn debt. (Las Vegas Sun)

In Business Las Vegas has an interview with UNLV Boyd School founding Dean Richard Morgan about his career, new position with Lionel Sawyer, and his opinion of Boyd grads as attorneys. (In Business Las Vegas)

Congratulations to Holly Fic for her new Associate position with Jolley Urga Wirth Woodbury & Standish here in Vegas. (Review-Journal)

[thanks to VD for the Richard Morgan tip]