Election Day Roundup

A potpourri of items for you on this fine election day:

• If you happen to be voting in Laughlin, you may actually recognize one of the names running for constable as our frequent, fashion-conscious commenter.


• ATL posted a story last week about Nevada attorney Jonathan Goldsmith's lawsuit over "mean Facebook Comments." Are we really into the upper 11,000's with bar numbers already?


• CPK has posted the pics from its recent annual party.


• U.S. District Court Judge Roger Hunt granted a TRO and ordered Joanna Kishner's censure to be rescinded. We imagine it may be difficult to un-ring that bell. (PDF of Order)


• Meanwhile, judicial candidate Ron Israel was censured for exposing his political party on a campaign flyer. (LV Sun)

(Thanks, Tipsters!)

Thurs Roundup

It looks like the Hep-C infected by Endoscopy Center are going to have to wait for justice [unless you consider Dr. "Needles" Desai's stroke to be justice served from on-high]. During a deposition on Tuesday, the clinic’s office manager asserted her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination [Desai has already indicated pre-stroke that he will "plead the 5th" if deposed]. (Las Vegas Sun). Currently, the trial is set for sometime in October 2009. (Las Vegas Now)

Harmful Error has the contribution and expense report in the race for the Supreme Court B seat. (Harmful Error)

George Knapp decries the ethics and malpractice "enforcement" mechanism in Nevada for doctors. (Las Vegas City Life). He notes that physicians on the Board of Osteopathic Medicine don't think it will be necessary to bar anesthesiologist Dr. Scott Young from practicing medicine, even though they have strong evidence that he re-used syringes on different patients. [so any of your attorneys feeling down about the lack of ethics in the profession within Nevada, cheer up! you'll always know Nevada doctors are worse]

And in federal court, U.S. District Judge Hunt ruled that the First Amendment gives orthodox jew police detectives the right to wear a beard in conformity with their religious beliefs. (Review-Journal)

Wed Roundup

The Clark Co. District Attorney's office is challenging the Nevada Attorney General's ruling about term limits. (Nevada Appeal)

The media reports on the Holland & Hart merger with Hale Lane, which makes H&H the biggest firm in the Mountain West. (Denver Business Journal)

Lawyers in the "bodybuilders murder" prosecution of Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan are again asking the Nevada Supreme Court to intervene and postpone their trial in the slaying of their live-in personal assistant. (Review-Journal)

The Clark Co. Coroner says cocaine was involved in the mysterious death of Buffalo Jim Barrier. (Review-Journal)

The city attorney for Sparks is appealing the ruling of Judge Maddox that Councilman Mike Carrigan should have abstained from voting on a casino project due to conflict of interest. (Review-Journal)

Las Vegas City Life pronounces all lawyers are d-bags based on feedback from the Adam Kutner article. (Las Vegas City Life)

U.S. District Judge Hunt has ordered a Las Vegas developer convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to report to federal prison. (Nevada Appeal)

8 candidates have put their name in the hat to replace Family Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle. (Harmful Error)

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]

Mon-Tues Roundup

Nevada Senior Judges are getting a pay cut. (Nevada Appeal)

Mainor Eglet Cottle filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Vegas homeowner who refinanced with an adjustable-rate mortgage in 2005 and can no longer afford his monthly housing payment.

The lawsuit accuses eight mortgage brokers of fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent misrepresentation, intentional misrepresentation, and breach of covenant good faith and fair dealing. (Review-Journal)

The two (maybe gang member) teenagers who [allegedly] shot a high school freshman pled not guilty (Review-Journal)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the Judge Roger Hunt's decision that Clark Co. school dress codes do not violate students' right to free speech after considering a case involving a junior suspended for wearing T-shirts expressing her religious faith.(Review-Journal)

Clark Co. Registrar of Voters, Larry Lomax filed an Answer to Judge Halverson's attempt to avoid running for re-election Monday, saying the embattled judge waited too long to claim her two-year term is unconstitutional and that Halverson knew about the term length when she campaigned in 2006 but didn't raise the issue then. (Review-Journal) [tip o' the hat to Harmful Error for posting the Answer]