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- Judge Abbi Silver set bail at $1 million for a pimp accused of torturing a prostitute. [RJ]
- Will overpopulation in county jails lead to less bookings? It already has. [RJ]
- Ride-sharing app Uber is getting ready to launch in Las Vegas. [8NewsNow]
- Meanwhile, the Nevada Taxicab Authority approved an 8% increase in cab fares. [Fox5Vegas]
- The Life is Beautiful festival is affecting downtown with road closures. [KNPRnews]
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http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/bap/2014/10/22/Cuomo%20memo%2013-1294.pdf
Markell's decision against attorney affirmed
I miss Markell. I wish we had more judges like him in State, Federal and Bankruptcy courts. If eugenics makes a come back, I would recommend we mix his genes with the genes of Nakagawa, Gonzalez and Barker. A new breed of super judges would turn our courts into a cornucopia of justice for the starved citizens of Nevada.
Gonzalez and Barker rock!
The justice-starved citizens demand elected judges!!!!
Bar results-today? More bodies looking for work! Suspect the exam has gotten easier.
57 percent pass rate
but lol at the idea that any bar exam is actually difficult
Yikes. 57% pass rate on the July bar? That rate is typically reserved for the second-timers in February.
That's a pretty significant drop from last time. The last few July exams (which is mostly first-time takers) has been like 69%, 68%, 66%. 57% would seem to make the NV bar about tied with California for most difficult. Did anyone here take it this time and have any insight as to why it was so hard? Were there any weird questions testing marginal material that no one typically studies very much? Could it be the addition of CivPro to the MPRE (has that been added yet)?
3:49 here. MBE, not MPRE. Duh.
The declines are to be expected. Law schools have experienced a steep decline in applications and some schools have gone from a 50% acceptance rate to over 80%, essentially open enrollment. It would make sense that in coming years the bar exam pass rate would decrease.
The National Conference of Bar Examiners is adding Federal Civil Procedure to the MBE effective with the February 2015 Bar Exam.
I agree with the comments above re the lower-than expected pass rate. Several excellent candidates, including a law clerk, previously took the Nevada Bar Exam and did not pass (again), undoubtedly due to the low pass rate. Very disappointing outcome. With these thoughts in mind, it will be interesting to see the questions and model answers when they are posted on the State Bar's website within the next week or so.
Meanwhile, big congrats to those of you who passed our tough Bar Exam!
I don't see how a reduction in law school applications would reduce the pass rate on the bar exam. It would reduce the total number of people taking and passing, but the rate? I would expect the overall quality of law students to stay the same. For the overall quality to decrease we'd have to presume that most of the reduction in applications and matriculations is in higher quality students. I suppose that's possible. Did Boyd's average LSAT decrease meaningfully from Class of 2013 to Class of 2014?
7:37,
Because the credentials of the people taking the bar exam now (LSAT, UGPA) is substantially lower than just a few years ago. Law schools, desperate to fill seats, have accepted students who are not smart enough to pass the bar or practice law. That's why. If the law schools won't screen out unqualified individuals, I am glad that the bar exam will.
8:02
The theory was that the bar is curved. If the bar examiners set the curve lower, it wouldn't matter if the number of applicants was decreasing. Anyway, the people taking the bar would have entered law school in 2010-2012, so your theory lacks correlation.
Anyway, I'm all in favor for setting the curve at 50% and only offering it once a year. I'm already in, so let's make the club more prestigious. 😉
How many sat for it?
191 passed according to the list I cut and paste into Word. So 335 sat, thereabouts.
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Family Judge Vincent NOchoa's son was arrested for Heroin use a few days ago in Las Vegas (Event Number 141012-3116) and NOchoa used a favor to get him released (OR) and to have LVMPD try to cover up the incident. NOchoa is not a honest guy. —– Vote for Jason Stoffel in Dept. S
Damn….close to slander on this one by alleging that he tried to have LVMPD cover it up.
He was likely released while they wait for the blood test results. It can several weeks or months to obtain the results. Fairly standard operating procedure so unlikely anyone had to pull any strings.