As eviction moratorium eases, overwhelmed renters turn to nonprofit for legal help. [Nevada Current]
Governor Sisolak is preparing to announce exciting prizes for people who have gotten vaccinated. Meanwhile, the US has passed 600,000 deaths due to Covid. [RJ; CNBC]
Attending the Lights FC game this Saturday could get you a one-time free traffic citation representation from the De Castroverde Law Group (certain terms and restrictions apply). [Fox5Vegas]
OJ Simpson has to continue paying the Goldman family. [KTNV]
Five big upcoming US Supreme Court cases. [The Hill]
This exists for some attorneys do to favors for clients and other attorneys to run a mill to make money. The part that sucks the most about it is that poor people with limited or no resources end up paying full freight for traffic tickets while middle and upper class folks don't. Years ago, I ended up showing up early and saw the session of poor unrepresented people taking care of traffic tickets. Some had bench warrants because they couldn't get work off to come in. Others needed a payment play (I think $20 a month?) for a $400 ticket. It was really sad and pathetic (not the poor people, but our system).
The law has just changed and traffic citations will no longer be criminalized. Bench Warrants wont be problem in the future. Hopefully, this is the change to which you are referring.
The way we do tickets may need to change, but that's not really what 11:33 was talking about. A law firm is saying "bring us your sports event ticket and we will represent you for free on a traffic ticket."
For the only jurisdiction that has this burning desire to regulate attorney commercial speech, this seems a bit icky. It's as if legal representation is or should be equated to getting a free Whopper with your game ticket. If the SBN would just drop the whole pre-screening of advertisements, etc. I wouldn't care. Instead, they've doubled down and tried to close loopholes and safe harbor provisions.
Slightly off topic, De-criminalized tickets
No bench warrants – but there must be a method to enforce collection of fines. I haven't seen anything that explains how, for example, the City of Las Vegas, will collect fines and the actions to be taken if unpaid or the ticket and fine is ignored.
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June 15, 2021 7:18 pm
Covid 19 takes over 600k lives and in person hearings are happening in federal court. Wow.
I've got family members and clients in the medical field and, in addition to the actual expert advise coming from health officials, they can confirm that COVID is an actual, real thing. COVID deniers are just idiots. Frankly, I'd love it if y'all got together and just gave each other COVID until the virus had run its course and handled the matter; however, that's not how viruses work and the rest of us have to exist in the same world. I suppose the least you can do is stay home. Don't go to the doctor, don't come outside, don't go around other people. Just stay home. Since you think it's a fake virus, you shouldn't have a problem with that. Be free! …at home.
I am pretty sure that no one on this thread claimed that CV19 wasn't a real thing. Its just not the killer that they say it is. Its a flu (which killed nearly ZERO people last year) with a very scary name.
BTW, I too have doctors as clients and family members and its funny that they say the exact opposite of your family and clients. You'd think that the videos of various state, national and world leaders "faking it" for the cameras and repeatedly getting caught violating their own protocols and mandates would be enough for you to QUESTION!
But its OK, you keep staying inside, wearing your mask after having had your mRNA "vaccine". I'm going to a Knight's game with 20,000 of my friends, none of wearing masks and all of us pretending to be vaccinated.
Shhhhh. Don't tell Sisolak. Oh wait, he knows this too.
@1:30 – get a grip… having family members and clients that are "in the medical field" does not qualify you or your opinions in any way. If you're so scared, you stay home. As for me and my family, we will go out and continue living/enjoying what life has to offer.
1:37 and 1:44 – both of you can go fuck yourselves. The headlines today are talking about yet another variant that's even worse. COVID is NOT just the flu. And oh by the way…the reason we didn't have a normal cold and flu season is because we were distancing, masking, and washing our hands. You know…medical advise that actually works. This country has topped 600k dead and you fucking morons are still insisting it's not real. You're delusional.
Your disgusting, selfish behavior, and that of your fellow tin-foil hatters, has contributed to immeasurable heartache and loss for the families who've lost people to COVID while you sit on your ignorant asses watching Fox News and jerking yourself off to MAGA youtube videos. Go to hell. Keep your dirty, germy, unvaccinated asses home. Stay away from the rest of us, you trash people.
1:30: I also have family, friends, and clients in the medical field. Since about May 2020 they have been calling this a hoax of epic proportions. Unconscionable.
2:04: Have you tried turning off the TV and avoiding social media for 30 days as a sort of "cleanse" for your mind? After 30 days, ease in with some Alex Jones and Dan Bongino, and then start adding fake news back into your diet in very small doses. You will be amazed!
That's funny 2:08…my RN client was just here this morning telling me how many patients she has been sending the ICU with COVID. They aren't bouncing back. People are still dying. Fuck you, moron. Fuck you and your stupid hoax bullshit. You're a trash person spreading lies and misinformation about a very real pandemic that has killed millions. To be honest, I really hope you get COVID…or better yet, I hope your family gets COVID and while they lay in the ICU, alone, struggling to breath, you can watch them die on facetime and assure your ignorant self that it's fake. That's all you deserve.
Keep swallowing whole what "they" tell you. Keep reading headlines from the deep state and its puppet, the MSM (including FoxNews).
Do some research. "THEY" lie and want to control you and steal from you. They want to keep you in fear and locked down, so they can do what they want and so you cant stop them.
Name calling doesn't work on us. Profanity doesn't work on us and nothing can stop it.
Suck it up and try seeing if there really is anything to it and do some research. And I mean besides your precious "headlines".
And for the record. @215, my SISTER is a nurse. She and 50% o her co-workers are refusing the mRna "vaccine" and understand that this whole thing is nonsense.
The covid-19 danger is exaggerated. It isn't the mass killer claimed. Anyone testing positive, including false positives, within 30 days of death was listed as a covid death. So the death number is highly suspect.. The 40 cycle pcr test was/is worthless and the CDC just dropped the cycles to 28 for those who are vaccinated and are suspected of having covid. I guess the CDC wants to avoid the false positive problem for the vaccine push. Don't want "safe and effective" to be tarnished.
I think 1:44 was implying Covid is real and people should get the vaccine. I know this because I am 1:44. I was wondering if he refused to get the vaccine? I assume he did because it is rare to see someone have Covid issues after getting the vaccine. Relax 2:04. You are going to hurt yourself.
Exactly. Try researching the PCR test and its ability to detect viruses. They cranked it up to 40 cycles. Way beyond its "cycle threshold" effectiveness and causing huge numbers of false positives. In fact, your beloved WHO admitted a few months ago the problems with it and the CDC fixed it, causing VIOLA, a dramatic decrease in positive cases.
I haven't seen anyone claim that Covid isn't real. Not on this thread anyway.
Also, @204 – In the course of my research, I've looked and haven't seen any video of Trump getting the vaccine. I did see video of Ivanka purporting to get it. But, I haven't seen anyone else in his family get it. Maybe I am not looking in the right spot.
@2:04- 1:44 (the first) here, your incessant profanity and name-calling will get you nowhere. Take a break from angrily pounding the keyboard to consider the fact that I did not support Trump in either election. And while I'm sure you certainly think you sound tough, I know if it wasn't for the the anonymity offered by the blog and the fact you aren't seeing me face-to-face, you wouldn't be saying any of the above.
Relax a little… at this point your high blood pressure may poise a greater risk to you than COVID.
Oh honey…I will never stop cussing, on this blog or otherwise. And if you think I won't cuss you out to your face, you clearly do not know me. Ask Ben…he'll tell you. I will happily cuss at you, in front of you, about you, and behind your back. Cussing ALL THE TIME!!!!!
And my blood pressure is amazingly healthy, but for sure thanks for checking.
Wow 3:11… you're so brave. How do you do it? You're a true inspiration for us all. I wish all members of the legal community would engage each other more like you do — NOT.
I'm sorry no one ever taught you how to talk to others.
I appreciate all the invectives being thrown around here. This is what I know, Ken Long died two days ago from COVID, John Duffy died from COVID late last year. There are a number of people who have suffered heart attacks who were young in the past year, one of my close friends died recently from a heart attack, I suspect it might be from undiagnosed COVID. Additionally I know of three attorneys in my field who were hospitalized from COVID who were given less than a 50% chance of living, thank god they pulled through. I was diagnosed with COVID, my wife was diagnosed with COVID, her ex husband was diagnosed with COVID, both of my daughters were diagnosed with COVID. My immediate family and my wife's ex husband, good dude, had minor symptoms and we were lucky. It appears that this disease can ruin people, we were lucky that it didn't affect us beyond the quarantine, but to say it is no stronger than the flu seems anecdotally incorrect. If it hasn't affected you, good for you, but there are quite a few members of our community who can't say the same. We should be sensitive to those folks because they represent a true loss to our community as a whole. Minimizing COVID minimizes the lives of those who were lost and that is a shitty thing to do.
4:25, certainly people have died but the percentage of people who died from this has been exaggerated. I don't think trying to put this into proper perspective and not overreacting is disparaging those who died.
How about we look at all the evidence and not just the evidence that supports one narrative or another? How about we look at other remedies too? How about we leave emotion out of this?
How is the percentage exaggerated? Percentages are based upon math. 600k people have died. You can’t talk about evidence be a basis for any discussion, then just say things are exaggerated with no evidence. Actually you can since this a blog and people say dumb shit constantly.
To the nincompoops who discount the seriousness of the Covid-19 virus I say this: Just look at India or Brazil. I can't believe you people are members of the bar.
False positives from the PCR Test. That's how the numbers get exaggerated. Research the inventor of the PCR test and the inventor's opinion on using it for Virus Detection.
I sympathize and lost friends as well and Covid caused medical conditions that almost killed my father. My 30 yr old daughter caught it and recovered after a few days. So I don't dispute that Covid is real. But, that said, false positives, caused by 40 cycles for PCR testing, are blowing it out of proportion.
Add to that the substantial govt funding for hospitals that diagnose CV19 and said diagnoses are called into question at best. Some counties are reversing causes of death for these false positives. Research it.
Point is, the whole "pandemic" is manufactured to scare us, control us and redirect our money to the medical industry. CV19 is 99.9x% survivable for nearly every age group.
Stop cowering in fear, go to in-person court hearings without grousing and dont believe everything that they tell you, especially through the MSM.
You were taught to think critically. Try it on. It feels great.
Wow this is certainly getting heated. Last year it started with no one knowing anyone with COVID. Then it got to where we knew people who tested positive but with minor symptoms. Now I am certain that most people know of people who have actually died, like Ken Long and John Duffy. Maybe the numbers reported of deaths are not accurate. But we certainly cannot deny that this is a very serious virus. I think the problem for the American people is the way the media is reporting it and how politicized things have become. I would recommend the Dark Horse podcast with Bret Weinstein. It is very informative about the pandemic. Watch the episodes: "How to save the world, in three easy steps" and COVID, Ivermectin, and the "Crime of the Century: DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein"
Also, @204 – In the course of my research, I've looked and haven't seen any video of Trump getting the vaccine. I did see video of Ivanka purporting to get it. But, I haven't seen anyone else in his family get it. Maybe I am not looking in the right spot.
You didn't see him inject bleach, ingest hydrocholroquine (sp?) or expose his blood to UV rays, but some people did it to themsleves anyways, cuz he said it would work. The kneejerk "anti-any!-andALL!-Democrat positions" is crazy when you apply it to science and medicine. Just crazy. I bet if a Democrat were in office when COVID hit all we'd hear about is how many deaths there were and how horrible the reaponse was (see e.g. states run by Dems). Its so divisive over an issue that should unite us allz regarless of politics.
That's an EASY question. Call chambers and let them know, asking for direction. Was that really the basis for this thread??
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June 15, 2021 7:43 pm
I was recently assigned a case against David Winterton. I know about the legendary sanction against him from BK court, but does anyone know of any other cases/orders where the courts have found that he was not truthful?
Ninth Circuit: David J. Winterton and his law firm, David J. Winterton &
Associates, Ltd. (collectively, Winterton) appeal the bankruptcy
court’s imposition of $109,528 in sanctions against him for
violating Rule 9011 by filing a corporate bankruptcy without
proper authorization, failing to conduct a reasonable inquiry
into his client’s corporate affairs, and, after being put on
notice that he lacked proper authorization, continuing to
advocate the improper filing. We AFFIRM.
David is a stand up guy. He can occasionally, be a little lazy, but he is a good dude and you can believe him when he speaks and take him at his word. I have tried cases against him.
The BK thing was years ago (I was there, hanging out with the BK Hottie) and wasn't exactly as you think. That whole thing stemmed from again, a little laziness, upon which he doubled down and got hammered.
Seems like you might be newto town, maybe from Cali, looking for an unearned advantage. Just do your job and sleep well at night.
Holy cow. I remember this case. Markell was a stickler and HATED shoddy work. He slammed Winterton with a two ton shovel for slacking off and half assing it some. Other than this, Winterton is clean and ultimately as said by @1259, a pretty good person, whom you can rely on to tell the truth. As I recall, Markell didn't like Winterton much and ripped him verbally on occasion.
I looked up the case and immediately questioned it when I saw Markell was on it. I never practiced bankruptcy, but Markell's benchslaps always seemed like he was going for media coverage (which he got). He essentially destroyed the career of an unprepared associate when the benchslap went viral. He struck me as the kind of person who had no appreciation for the difficulties of practicing law, a bit of a misanthrope and a bitter person. Which sort of makes sense because didn't he end up being a law professor?
The 9th did affirm sanctions but reduced them by 90%. "We affirm the bankruptcy court’s decision to impose sanctions but reduce the sanction award to $11,000." I will say that I was also around when 12:59 was and can say that the case was not as clear cut. Winterton was told by the his client and shown documentation that the individuals authorizing the Petition had corporate authority and control when it was a 50/50 situation.
1:54– He was a law professor before taking the bench and went back to being a law professor after leaving the bench. He was friends with Jane Ann Morrison and spoon fed his slappings to her to humiliate people.
Markell wanted to show us NV hicks how to practice and Dave got in his sights unfortunately. I kinda miss having motions critiqued for grammar and spelling mistakes in open court, though.
Hey 2:26, you mean Judges Nakagawa and Landis don't still call out attorneys on their grammar and spelling mistakes in open court? As far as I know, they have always done this and still continue to do it – right after shrinking each and every attorney appearing before them down to about two inches in height.
Never had a problem with Nakagawa. Landis' problem is that he wastes insane amounts of time. I have seen him read his findings from the bench (which he insists on doing for some reason) for hours. Literally. As in more than one. Even simple motions will receive what must be a written out oration on the courts findings and conclusions. I don't know how he does it.
Markell was one of the finest judges to grace any bench in Nevada. Brilliant. Fair. Hard working. Willing to buck the prevailing trends to achieve justice. He was a $1k+/hr. big firm partner who got bored and decided to make bankruptcy practice better for everyone. Like all wildly successful mavericks, he was uniformly hated by the mediocre sourpuss FBUs that dominate our profession.
I do not disagree with @817p. Markell was a pleasure to be in front of. I garnered his respect by carrying my BK Code book with me. So that when he asked me a question "What about that point in light of Section XXX?) I would pause, look it up and answer. He never, ever called me out for that. He just smirked and nodded. I noticed and never failed to have my codebook with me after that.
I always respected him, even when he called out other lawyers for shoddy or careless work. It was kind of his way of letting us know that he KNEW Bk law and wanted us to know it too.
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June 15, 2021 9:58 pm
Yeah, Nakagawa really turned up the heat to fill the void left my Markell. He NEVER did that before. Damn, do I miss Clive Jones and Linda Reigle.
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June 16, 2021 12:08 am
The interesting thing about Judge Jones was he that he was so laid back 99% of the time in U.S. Bankruptcy Court – and then when he got appointed and confirmed to U.S. District Court, he turned into a whole different person.
From what I remember, he was widely respected in bankruptcy court, but as a district court judge, he was overturned many times by the 9th Circuit, and those opinions were not that nice to him and a few were kind of demeaning.
Not many times, as I recall. His ONE major (by major, I mean LOTS of press) 9th Cir overturn was Nevada's Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Which, if you read his opinion was not religious, it was state's rights and Constitution based.
He was a good judge and well respected. The media vilified him for that decision.
Clive is a good man and was a great jurist. We are worse off for having lost him.
He had other reversals from the Ninth Circuit I would also characterize as major, such as reversals where he was also booted from the case. There was more than one.
Evictions
Anyone know how the eviction mediations are working, or not?
They are not. They do nothing, most of the time the tenant doesn't even show. It is just a stall tactic.
They arent. And with the passage of AB 486, get ready for evictions to get even wackier.
Can anyone with more wisdom tell me why this ticket fixing give away is okay?
Ummm, because it is. Duh.
This exists for some attorneys do to favors for clients and other attorneys to run a mill to make money. The part that sucks the most about it is that poor people with limited or no resources end up paying full freight for traffic tickets while middle and upper class folks don't. Years ago, I ended up showing up early and saw the session of poor unrepresented people taking care of traffic tickets. Some had bench warrants because they couldn't get work off to come in. Others needed a payment play (I think $20 a month?) for a $400 ticket. It was really sad and pathetic (not the poor people, but our system).
The way we do tickets needs to change.
The law has just changed and traffic citations will no longer be criminalized. Bench Warrants wont be problem in the future. Hopefully, this is the change to which you are referring.
The way we do tickets may need to change, but that's not really what 11:33 was talking about. A law firm is saying "bring us your sports event ticket and we will represent you for free on a traffic ticket."
For the only jurisdiction that has this burning desire to regulate attorney commercial speech, this seems a bit icky. It's as if legal representation is or should be equated to getting a free Whopper with your game ticket. If the SBN would just drop the whole pre-screening of advertisements, etc. I wouldn't care. Instead, they've doubled down and tried to close loopholes and safe harbor provisions.
Slightly off topic, De-criminalized tickets
No bench warrants – but there must be a method to enforce collection of fines. I haven't seen anything that explains how, for example, the City of Las Vegas, will collect fines and the actions to be taken if unpaid or the ticket and fine is ignored.
Covid 19 takes over 600k lives and in person hearings are happening in federal court. Wow.
Please. Just stop.
Get your big girl pants on and go to court.
Status checks need to still be remote. No reason to sit in there for hours and wait for the elevator…
Yes but that is a matter of convenience and economics. Not "safety".
"600K" lives. Loving that tasty Kool-Aid, are you?
Swallowing everything he / she / they are told.
I've got family members and clients in the medical field and, in addition to the actual expert advise coming from health officials, they can confirm that COVID is an actual, real thing. COVID deniers are just idiots. Frankly, I'd love it if y'all got together and just gave each other COVID until the virus had run its course and handled the matter; however, that's not how viruses work and the rest of us have to exist in the same world. I suppose the least you can do is stay home. Don't go to the doctor, don't come outside, don't go around other people. Just stay home. Since you think it's a fake virus, you shouldn't have a problem with that. Be free! …at home.
I am pretty sure that no one on this thread claimed that CV19 wasn't a real thing. Its just not the killer that they say it is. Its a flu (which killed nearly ZERO people last year) with a very scary name.
BTW, I too have doctors as clients and family members and its funny that they say the exact opposite of your family and clients. You'd think that the videos of various state, national and world leaders "faking it" for the cameras and repeatedly getting caught violating their own protocols and mandates would be enough for you to QUESTION!
But its OK, you keep staying inside, wearing your mask after having had your mRNA "vaccine". I'm going to a Knight's game with 20,000 of my friends, none of wearing masks and all of us pretending to be vaccinated.
Shhhhh. Don't tell Sisolak. Oh wait, he knows this too.
@1:30 – get a grip… having family members and clients that are "in the medical field" does not qualify you or your opinions in any way. If you're so scared, you stay home. As for me and my family, we will go out and continue living/enjoying what life has to offer.
I saw Jason Stoffel had Covid and was in hospital. Does anyone know anyone who got vaccine and ended up in the hospital with Covid?
Jason has very nearly died from it. His case is no joke.
1:37 and 1:44 – both of you can go fuck yourselves. The headlines today are talking about yet another variant that's even worse. COVID is NOT just the flu. And oh by the way…the reason we didn't have a normal cold and flu season is because we were distancing, masking, and washing our hands. You know…medical advise that actually works. This country has topped 600k dead and you fucking morons are still insisting it's not real. You're delusional.
Your disgusting, selfish behavior, and that of your fellow tin-foil hatters, has contributed to immeasurable heartache and loss for the families who've lost people to COVID while you sit on your ignorant asses watching Fox News and jerking yourself off to MAGA youtube videos. Go to hell. Keep your dirty, germy, unvaccinated asses home. Stay away from the rest of us, you trash people.
Its like Trump and his family never got COVID or the vaccine.
1:30: I also have family, friends, and clients in the medical field. Since about May 2020 they have been calling this a hoax of epic proportions. Unconscionable.
2:04: Have you tried turning off the TV and avoiding social media for 30 days as a sort of "cleanse" for your mind? After 30 days, ease in with some Alex Jones and Dan Bongino, and then start adding fake news back into your diet in very small doses. You will be amazed!
That's funny 2:08…my RN client was just here this morning telling me how many patients she has been sending the ICU with COVID. They aren't bouncing back. People are still dying. Fuck you, moron. Fuck you and your stupid hoax bullshit. You're a trash person spreading lies and misinformation about a very real pandemic that has killed millions. To be honest, I really hope you get COVID…or better yet, I hope your family gets COVID and while they lay in the ICU, alone, struggling to breath, you can watch them die on facetime and assure your ignorant self that it's fake. That's all you deserve.
@204
Keep swallowing whole what "they" tell you. Keep reading headlines from the deep state and its puppet, the MSM (including FoxNews).
Do some research. "THEY" lie and want to control you and steal from you. They want to keep you in fear and locked down, so they can do what they want and so you cant stop them.
Name calling doesn't work on us. Profanity doesn't work on us and nothing can stop it.
Suck it up and try seeing if there really is anything to it and do some research. And I mean besides your precious "headlines".
And for the record. @215, my SISTER is a nurse. She and 50% o her co-workers are refusing the mRna "vaccine" and understand that this whole thing is nonsense.
The covid-19 danger is exaggerated. It isn't the mass killer claimed. Anyone testing positive, including false positives, within 30 days of death was listed as a covid death. So the death number is highly suspect.. The 40 cycle pcr test was/is worthless and the CDC just dropped the cycles to 28 for those who are vaccinated and are suspected of having covid. I guess the CDC wants to avoid the false positive problem for the vaccine push. Don't want "safe and effective" to be tarnished.
I think 1:44 was implying Covid is real and people should get the vaccine. I know this because I am 1:44. I was wondering if he refused to get the vaccine? I assume he did because it is rare to see someone have Covid issues after getting the vaccine. Relax 2:04. You are going to hurt yourself.
Exactly. Try researching the PCR test and its ability to detect viruses. They cranked it up to 40 cycles. Way beyond its "cycle threshold" effectiveness and causing huge numbers of false positives. In fact, your beloved WHO admitted a few months ago the problems with it and the CDC fixed it, causing VIOLA, a dramatic decrease in positive cases.
Hmmmmm. Almost like the "they's" PLANNED it.
I haven't seen anyone claim that Covid isn't real. Not on this thread anyway.
Also, @204 – In the course of my research, I've looked and haven't seen any video of Trump getting the vaccine. I did see video of Ivanka purporting to get it. But, I haven't seen anyone else in his family get it. Maybe I am not looking in the right spot.
trump and his whore wife admitted they got the vaccine in january. Thanks google.
"Admitted", is different than video evidence. Last time I checked.
@242
Again with the name calling. You really need some Xanax.
@2:04- 1:44 (the first) here, your incessant profanity and name-calling will get you nowhere. Take a break from angrily pounding the keyboard to consider the fact that I did not support Trump in either election. And while I'm sure you certainly think you sound tough, I know if it wasn't for the the anonymity offered by the blog and the fact you aren't seeing me face-to-face, you wouldn't be saying any of the above.
Relax a little… at this point your high blood pressure may poise a greater risk to you than COVID.
Yes. His / Her / Their Blood Pressure may actually be a co-morbidity that increases his risks, should he / she / they contract Covid.
Careful, Jr. That hate gon' kill ya!
Oh honey…I will never stop cussing, on this blog or otherwise. And if you think I won't cuss you out to your face, you clearly do not know me. Ask Ben…he'll tell you. I will happily cuss at you, in front of you, about you, and behind your back. Cussing ALL THE TIME!!!!!
And my blood pressure is amazingly healthy, but for sure thanks for checking.
Matters not to me. I guess its easier than actually doing some research beyond watching Rachel Maddow.
Wow 3:11… you're so brave. How do you do it? You're a true inspiration for us all. I wish all members of the legal community would engage each other more like you do — NOT.
I'm sorry no one ever taught you how to talk to others.
I love you 3:11
I appreciate all the invectives being thrown around here. This is what I know, Ken Long died two days ago from COVID, John Duffy died from COVID late last year. There are a number of people who have suffered heart attacks who were young in the past year, one of my close friends died recently from a heart attack, I suspect it might be from undiagnosed COVID. Additionally I know of three attorneys in my field who were hospitalized from COVID who were given less than a 50% chance of living, thank god they pulled through. I was diagnosed with COVID, my wife was diagnosed with COVID, her ex husband was diagnosed with COVID, both of my daughters were diagnosed with COVID. My immediate family and my wife's ex husband, good dude, had minor symptoms and we were lucky. It appears that this disease can ruin people, we were lucky that it didn't affect us beyond the quarantine, but to say it is no stronger than the flu seems anecdotally incorrect. If it hasn't affected you, good for you, but there are quite a few members of our community who can't say the same. We should be sensitive to those folks because they represent a true loss to our community as a whole. Minimizing COVID minimizes the lives of those who were lost and that is a shitty thing to do.
For the record, I won't cuss behind your back. I'll cuss directly at you.
To quote Lady Violet of "Downton Abbey": "A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears."
4:25, certainly people have died but the percentage of people who died from this has been exaggerated. I don't think trying to put this into proper perspective and not overreacting is disparaging those who died.
How about we look at all the evidence and not just the evidence that supports one narrative or another? How about we look at other remedies too? How about we leave emotion out of this?
What is wrong with a little emotion and empathy?
How is the percentage exaggerated? Percentages are based upon math. 600k people have died. You can’t talk about evidence be a basis for any discussion, then just say things are exaggerated with no evidence. Actually you can since this a blog and people say dumb shit constantly.
This is the greatest thread ever. Where is Bruce Markell when you need him?
To the nincompoops who discount the seriousness of the Covid-19 virus I say this: Just look at India or Brazil. I can't believe you people are members of the bar.
False positives from the PCR Test. That's how the numbers get exaggerated. Research the inventor of the PCR test and the inventor's opinion on using it for Virus Detection.
I sympathize and lost friends as well and Covid caused medical conditions that almost killed my father. My 30 yr old daughter caught it and recovered after a few days. So I don't dispute that Covid is real. But, that said, false positives, caused by 40 cycles for PCR testing, are blowing it out of proportion.
Add to that the substantial govt funding for hospitals that diagnose CV19 and said diagnoses are called into question at best. Some counties are reversing causes of death for these false positives. Research it.
Point is, the whole "pandemic" is manufactured to scare us, control us and redirect our money to the medical industry. CV19 is 99.9x% survivable for nearly every age group.
Stop cowering in fear, go to in-person court hearings without grousing and dont believe everything that they tell you, especially through the MSM.
You were taught to think critically. Try it on. It feels great.
Wow this is certainly getting heated. Last year it started with no one knowing anyone with COVID. Then it got to where we knew people who tested positive but with minor symptoms. Now I am certain that most people know of people who have actually died, like Ken Long and John Duffy. Maybe the numbers reported of deaths are not accurate. But we certainly cannot deny that this is a very serious virus. I think the problem for the American people is the way the media is reporting it and how politicized things have become. I would recommend the Dark Horse podcast with Bret Weinstein. It is very informative about the pandemic. Watch the episodes: "How to save the world, in three easy steps" and COVID, Ivermectin, and the "Crime of the Century: DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein"
Also, @204 – In the course of my research, I've looked and haven't seen any video of Trump getting the vaccine. I did see video of Ivanka purporting to get it. But, I haven't seen anyone else in his family get it. Maybe I am not looking in the right spot.
You didn't see him inject bleach, ingest hydrocholroquine (sp?) or expose his blood to UV rays, but some people did it to themsleves anyways, cuz he said it would work. The kneejerk "anti-any!-andALL!-Democrat positions" is crazy when you apply it to science and medicine. Just crazy. I bet if a Democrat were in office when COVID hit all we'd hear about is how many deaths there were and how horrible the reaponse was (see e.g. states run by Dems). Its so divisive over an issue that should unite us allz regarless of politics.
The only issue we NEED to be united on is that THEY dont tell us the truth. THEY want us subservient and cowtowed.
THEY want to separate us from our money for lining their pockets and enhancing their powerbase. Period. "Everything is a Rich Man's Game".
Everything else is matter of opinion.
Stop watching tv and start living a normal life. There is no they, only us.
I tried cowtowing but I find horses to be much better at towing. Maybe give it a shot 9:11.
@931
They disagree with you and want you to think exactly as you do.
Congrats. They win.
Miranda Du wants me to appear in person for an upcoming hearing when I have covid. Does it mean I am a big baby because I do not want to spread it?
That's an EASY question. Call chambers and let them know, asking for direction. Was that really the basis for this thread??
I was recently assigned a case against David Winterton. I know about the legendary sanction against him from BK court, but does anyone know of any other cases/orders where the courts have found that he was not truthful?
Ninth Circuit: David J. Winterton and his law firm, David J. Winterton &
Associates, Ltd. (collectively, Winterton) appeal the bankruptcy
court’s imposition of $109,528 in sanctions against him for
violating Rule 9011 by filing a corporate bankruptcy without
proper authorization, failing to conduct a reasonable inquiry
into his client’s corporate affairs, and, after being put on
notice that he lacked proper authorization, continuing to
advocate the improper filing. We AFFIRM.
David is a stand up guy. He can occasionally, be a little lazy, but he is a good dude and you can believe him when he speaks and take him at his word. I have tried cases against him.
The BK thing was years ago (I was there, hanging out with the BK Hottie) and wasn't exactly as you think. That whole thing stemmed from again, a little laziness, upon which he doubled down and got hammered.
Seems like you might be newto town, maybe from Cali, looking for an unearned advantage. Just do your job and sleep well at night.
Holy cow. I remember this case. Markell was a stickler and HATED shoddy work. He slammed Winterton with a two ton shovel for slacking off and half assing it some. Other than this, Winterton is clean and ultimately as said by @1259, a pretty good person, whom you can rely on to tell the truth. As I recall, Markell didn't like Winterton much and ripped him verbally on occasion.
I looked up the case and immediately questioned it when I saw Markell was on it. I never practiced bankruptcy, but Markell's benchslaps always seemed like he was going for media coverage (which he got). He essentially destroyed the career of an unprepared associate when the benchslap went viral. He struck me as the kind of person who had no appreciation for the difficulties of practicing law, a bit of a misanthrope and a bitter person. Which sort of makes sense because didn't he end up being a law professor?
The 9th did affirm sanctions but reduced them by 90%. "We affirm the bankruptcy court’s decision to impose sanctions but reduce the sanction award to $11,000." I will say that I was also around when 12:59 was and can say that the case was not as clear cut. Winterton was told by the his client and shown documentation that the individuals authorizing the Petition had corporate authority and control when it was a 50/50 situation.
1:54– He was a law professor before taking the bench and went back to being a law professor after leaving the bench. He was friends with Jane Ann Morrison and spoon fed his slappings to her to humiliate people.
Markell wanted to show us NV hicks how to practice and Dave got in his sights unfortunately. I kinda miss having motions critiqued for grammar and spelling mistakes in open court, though.
Hey 2:26, you mean Judges Nakagawa and Landis don't still call out attorneys on their grammar and spelling mistakes in open court? As far as I know, they have always done this and still continue to do it – right after shrinking each and every attorney appearing before them down to about two inches in height.
Never had a problem with Nakagawa. Landis' problem is that he wastes insane amounts of time. I have seen him read his findings from the bench (which he insists on doing for some reason) for hours. Literally. As in more than one. Even simple motions will receive what must be a written out oration on the courts findings and conclusions. I don't know how he does it.
Markell was one of the finest judges to grace any bench in Nevada. Brilliant. Fair. Hard working. Willing to buck the prevailing trends to achieve justice. He was a $1k+/hr. big firm partner who got bored and decided to make bankruptcy practice better for everyone. Like all wildly successful mavericks, he was uniformly hated by the mediocre sourpuss FBUs that dominate our profession.
#IloveMarkell
#IalsoloveNak
I do not disagree with @817p. Markell was a pleasure to be in front of. I garnered his respect by carrying my BK Code book with me. So that when he asked me a question "What about that point in light of Section XXX?) I would pause, look it up and answer. He never, ever called me out for that. He just smirked and nodded. I noticed and never failed to have my codebook with me after that.
I always respected him, even when he called out other lawyers for shoddy or careless work. It was kind of his way of letting us know that he KNEW Bk law and wanted us to know it too.
Yeah, Nakagawa really turned up the heat to fill the void left my Markell. He NEVER did that before. Damn, do I miss Clive Jones and Linda Reigle.
The interesting thing about Judge Jones was he that he was so laid back 99% of the time in U.S. Bankruptcy Court – and then when he got appointed and confirmed to U.S. District Court, he turned into a whole different person.
From what I remember, he was widely respected in bankruptcy court, but as a district court judge, he was overturned many times by the 9th Circuit, and those opinions were not that nice to him and a few were kind of demeaning.
Not many times, as I recall. His ONE major (by major, I mean LOTS of press) 9th Cir overturn was Nevada's Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Which, if you read his opinion was not religious, it was state's rights and Constitution based.
He was a good judge and well respected. The media vilified him for that decision.
Clive is a good man and was a great jurist. We are worse off for having lost him.
@ 8:30 lost? He is a Sr. Judge now.
He had other reversals from the Ninth Circuit I would also characterize as major, such as reversals where he was also booted from the case. There was more than one.
Happy Junteenth. ninth circuit court of appeals discriminates against minorities.
There was a criminal case where at least three writs were granted and he was booted off on the last one.