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With early voting here, we thought we would dedicate one last post to the 2024 Judicial Election. You can see all our posts on the topic this year by clicking here. Who do recommend voters choose? Feel free to discuss any judicial race on the ballot, but please keep your comments professional.
Talim, Coffing, Maxey, Bradford, Smith-Peterson, Dustin-Cruz, Bernstein-with-no-hyphenation
Sciscento, Talim, Coffing, Gaudet, Baucum, Cole-Leavitt, Bernstein
This is my text to those asking and there have been dozens.
bring back the civil bench !!!
This is closer to my recommendations as well. The only difference is I don’t care which one for N and I prefer Amy to Bernstein, but my opinion is not very strong on that one either. I will add, I’m voting Heap in JC 4. As long as we don’t end up with Baucum
Baucum has always been good to me and mine.
You got Talim right, 1 out of 7 ain’t bad.
Your “DA” is showing
Luckily, nobody GAF what you think about my voting reccos.
it feels good to be right
please provide literally any reason I would want a judge with zero civil experience to handle complex civil and business court cases.
They can follow this simple formula – sneeze and its yellow, bankrupt a fellow. If it’s green, smallest verdict ever seen.
Because the opposition is a shit sandwich I don’t want my clients to have to eat?
Agreed minus Talim #bringbackcivilbench
What in the hell is the value of actual experience in the area one is over? Look at how well OBC does and none of them have hardly any practical experience.
14– I advocated for Alan. Talim is a civil neophyte who is not picking up the civil bench. However Alan’s comments have proven disqualifying for me. So Talim.
17- Coffing
N- Gaudet
Henderson 1- DIGiacomo
LV 2- Sciecento
LV 4- Stoberski
LV5- Dustin Cruz
LV 8- Bernstein
NLV 2- Hoeffgen
Coffing is in 27 and he has my vote as well.
I meant 27. It was a typo (I know Schwartz is in 17).
no, your picks are horrendous. Why would anyone vote Hoeffgen over Cooper? and Dustin Cruz? Just no…
I presume he/she picked them because they are far superior to their competition. You can be anti an incumbent so long as there is a reasonably better challenger. Neither of those races have challengers that are better than the incumbents.
Not Talim. Boo.
Pardon my ignorance, but why are there not judges that handle fully civil dockets and others that handle fully criminal dockets? It clearly the common sense thing to do.
That’s how it is done in Texas.
That’s reason enough not to do it here.
It was that way at one time. The problem was that judges (perhaps rightly) perceived the criminal dockets as preferred. You must admit, a criminal docket requires much less effort and legal acumen when compared to a civil docket. There is less decisionmaking and there is a smaller spectrum of legal knowledge required. The cases also have much shorter lives. So what happened was that the more senior judges ended up with the criminal dockets and the less experienced judges ended up with civil dockets. It was problematic.
Can’t we just assign certain departments at civil/criminal prior to election? No seniority. A spot opens up, and the person knows what docket they will have when they decide to seek appointment or election?
Exactly. You run/apply for either a civil seat or a criminal seat, and never the twain shall meet unless someone needs emergency coverage or something. Family Court is separate (remember when you had to sit through all those uncontested divorces before the civil calendar started? I do). No reason not to have Civil Court, Criminal Court, and Family Court.
Criminal cases tend to get more publicity too (‘if it bleeds, it leads”), which helps keep the judge and his/her name in front of the public, name recognition = re-election.
If you have a 5000 or lower bar number, you may recall that all judges had a civil,criminal and domestic calendar. We did have 3 domestic “referees” however.
Vote Alan over Talim.
Gotta do it. Need that civil experience and she’s not measuring up.
I’ve had three cases with her and she’s done just fine. I wish she would issue her decisions by minute order, however. Coming back to court for a decision is pretty unnecessary for civil.
PLEASE…enough with the PD/DA pissing match continued by the Sheriff Governor…who ends up paying the price? Competent civil attorneys and their clients. This is your chance to fix the mess the uneducated public caused back in 2020. #bringbackthecivilbench
This mess has been happening well before 2020. Its just way more pervasive.
No way. His comments lately and that LGBT+/Deseret article are too far out there. We’ve got enough weirdos in NV politics. Don’t need to add more to the mix. Nope. I’m not a Talim fan, but she’s getting my vote.
Not far enough out there imho.
Funny, in 2014 that article matched Obama and Biden’s position on the issue and I don’t see you canceling them.
Lots of thing change with enough time.
Can you please provide a source that says that was Obama and Biden’s position? I read through the article and I do not recall that ever being Obama’s position. Biden’s been around enough decades that his position has likely changed over the decades. My recollection was Obama changed his personal position on gay marriage citing an evolution in his beliefs, but even before that his administration consistently worked towards strengthening LGBT+ rights and protections. Obama certainly helped veterans when he repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and he set the stage for the recent revision of 100s of veterans’ discharges to be changed from dishonorable to honorable which is a BFD.
So much for your recollection. You contradicted yourself. Thanks for the validation.
Civil experience at this point is more important to the bench than some outdated nonsense from 10 years ago, in a state that passed the actual amendment barely 10 years before that and which was the prevailing law in this state until 2015.
Right, because he must hate all gay people. Eye roll. Contrary to what leftist believe, conservatives don’t care about what you do in your bed room and I don’t think there is any real reason to believe that any member of the LGBTQ community can expect him to be biased against them.
That’s weird and completely false. Conservatives have tried to ban drag shows, ban LGBT+ books in libraries, ban classes on the LGBT+ movement/history, allow LGBT+ people to be kicked out of rental homes, allow government officials to refuse to offer services to LGBT+ folks based solely on who they are, ban gender affirming care, banning LGBT+ issues in sex ed, ban trans folks from using the bathroom that matches their gender, etc etc etc. But by all means, Alan, tell us how conservatives don’t care what other people do in their bedrooms. Liar.
Also when you advocate for depriving a group of people a fundamental right, I think it’s safe to say you hate them. There’s no other justification for that position.
Hate is more expansive than malice. This is your blind spot, 2:39 PM.
Nobody GAF. Obama supported marriage between a man and a woman, before he was against it.
Okay then which one is currently running to be a judge again?
You’re going to take comments that everyone has twisted and blown out of proportion take over legal and judicial competency??? The court has no place for politics. That’s sad.
I do not think that the judiciary should be “NV politics”.
NO WAY
Oh no – liberals are demagogues. Who woulda thunk it?
Serious and solemn question from out of town lawyer. What happened to the children of the mother that was shot in Mr. Prince’s office.
Our Nevada Judges has been covering it. The maternal grandparents want the kids because dad pre-deceased mom which means they would get access to the estate and mom’s community interest. I believe the maternal grandparents and the mother of the sibling are having joint custody of the child of the deceased parents and the other two children are on track to be returned to their father.
The situation that the Ashley|Dylan children and the Ashley|Dennis child find themselves in is absolutely tragic. IMHO I do not read the tea leaves as Dylan being on track to have the minor children returned. I spent some of my free time this past weekend catching up on the hearing videos and orders in this matter (side note observation: Dylan needs to keep his mouth shut during the hearings. He is his own worst enemy). At this juncture, I believe that any final outcome is possible. As I see it, with regard to physical custody of the Ashley|Dylan children, Judge Throne has four options: (1) Custody to Dylan with no visitation to Ashley’s parents; (2) Custody to Dylan with some type of custody and/or visitation to Ashley’s parents; (3) Joint physical custody to Dylan and Ashley’s Parents; (4) Primary physical custody to Ashley’s Parents and some type of custody/visitation for Dylan. Sure, there could be a Matlock moment. I do not reasonably envision a legal possibility beyond these four scenarios. If Ashley’s parents are awarded some type of physical custody and/or visitation, the court may also grant them some legal custody rights. UGH!
Troxel does not support that outcome. Throne cannot take them away from their dad. It does not matter how stupid he acts or what his text messages said. Just like the court could not take the kids from Ashley after she was convicted of DV against Dylan, they cannot take kids from Dylan for his dumb text messages. He has a fundamental right to raise his children. Ashley’s parents are getting bad legal advice if they think there is any other outcome. They should go to therapy and come to terms with their grief and work on a functional relationship with Dylan so that they can all come together and work for the best possible outcome for those kids. They won’t though. It’ll be years of ugly litigation and at the end of it the kids will have no memory of their mother. Family court is a hell hole.
LMAO that you think that something like legal precedent will support any outcome. It is the EJDC Family Court Division after all.
I’m support your post. Also, never forget the effect of the cabal. Every decision made by the judge and attorneys is in the context of the power of the OBC, large divorce lawyers, LACSN, etc. It’s the custody industry hard at work in Nevada.
Thank you
Thoughts on mendoza?
Not impressed.
VOTE COFFING!!!
If Terry started to identify as Terri, they would win.
GTFOH with that question. Coffing is a MUST for this seat.
What about JC 5 -Cole vs Cruz?
Cruz by a long shot. Been a great judge for over a decade and has the experience to handle all types of calendars and cases. This incumbent needs to be retained. Vote Cruz!!!
Cole bought and paid for an ad saying Cruz is not Hispanic!! It’s getting dirty.
Well, she isn’t actually hispanic. Does she claim to be?
I remember when she was just Cynthia Dustin and used the hyphenation of her married name when running for office. So, it is what it is.
And Cole isn’t really a Leavitt.
Goose/Gander
And, I am of the opinion that an actual blood descendent of Myron (his granddaughter) is a hell of a lot more “Leavitt” then Dustin is hispanic.
So there ya go.
Talim, Sciscento, Mendoza, Heap, Cole, Ferreira.
Sciscento and Cole are the only ones that you got right.
I understood that Cole is Myron Leavitt’s grandughter (not that that makes a difference to me).
Hot Take – someone with a “famous” last name or family should have to work harder to prove they are qualified and get my vote. Being the child/nephew/grandchild of such a person means you have doors open to you and connections not available to others. So your achievements are correspondingly discounted to me. This is a judge position. Someone who will make life altering decisions based upon their judgment and decision making.
That is a completely reasonable take. But, with Dustin is bad for the bench, replacing her with any warm body is also reasonable. Add to that one with a decent breadth of experience and a good demeanor, its an easy call.
Is 5 years as a practicing attorney really the experience we want on the bench? And the ethics issues surround her are mounting.
Someone with SIX years of experience. You don’t make partner at many firms at 6 years let alone think of being a judge. This is not even a close call if her name was not Leavitt and oh by the way, her name is not now and never actually been Leavitt.