Little help please. I have a case with James E. Smith but I thought I read on here that he had passed away. Does anyone have information regarding this?
Have you called his office to speak with him? A Google search shows that his Yelp biz page was recently updated this month, and nvbar.org doesn’t list him as deceased.
I can confirm that. It happened pretty recently. Not sure what’s going to happen with his cases. My impression was that he didn’t have any succession planning prepared.
He was an arbitrator in a case and a new arbitrator was chosen.
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Anonymous
January 29, 2026 9:36 am
Pucci also showed the jury screenshots from a nearly 10-minute video previously shown, where she said Chasing Horse is seen recording himself sexually abusing a child. Police found the video on a cell phone located in his bedroom during the raid of his home on Jan. 31, 2023.Defense attorney Craig Mueller on Jan. 28, 2026, continued to call the case a “divorce case,” rather than a criminal case.
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Anonymous
January 29, 2026 3:24 pm
The new supreme court opinion in Williams today is interesting in that it allowed the disqualification of Judge Sigurdson based solely on an order rather than an external source of bias
An Order in which the trial court judge declared 10 times that the Defendant was guilty even though he had not been tried yet. Sigurdsen is a few rocks short of a box so this is not exactly a surprise.
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Anonymous
January 29, 2026 3:42 pm
The Moore case (NV COA) today is interesting on premises liability. Plaintiff doesn’t even have to show D had knowledge of a hazardous condition.
To satisfy the notice requirement, a plaintiff need only demonstrate that their “injury was attributable to a reasonably foreseeable dangerous condition on the owner’s premises that is related to the owner’s self-service mode of operation.” Giglio, 128 Nev. at 281, 278 P.3d at 496 (quoting Sheehan, 863 N.E.2d at 1283).
Little help please. I have a case with James E. Smith but I thought I read on here that he had passed away. Does anyone have information regarding this?
He indeed passed away.
Have you called his office to speak with him? A Google search shows that his Yelp biz page was recently updated this month, and nvbar.org doesn’t list him as deceased.
I can confirm that. It happened pretty recently. Not sure what’s going to happen with his cases. My impression was that he didn’t have any succession planning prepared.
Thank you for your courteous replies.
He was an arbitrator in a case and a new arbitrator was chosen.
Pucci also showed the jury screenshots from a nearly 10-minute video previously shown, where she said Chasing Horse is seen recording himself sexually abusing a child. Police found the video on a cell phone located in his bedroom during the raid of his home on Jan. 31, 2023.Defense attorney Craig Mueller on Jan. 28, 2026, continued to call the case a “divorce case,” rather than a criminal case.
The new supreme court opinion in Williams today is interesting in that it allowed the disqualification of Judge Sigurdson based solely on an order rather than an external source of bias
An Order in which the trial court judge declared 10 times that the Defendant was guilty even though he had not been tried yet. Sigurdsen is a few rocks short of a box so this is not exactly a surprise.
The Moore case (NV COA) today is interesting on premises liability. Plaintiff doesn’t even have to show D had knowledge of a hazardous condition.
MOORE VS. PRIMADONNA CO., LLC???
To satisfy the notice requirement, a plaintiff need only demonstrate that their “injury was attributable to a reasonably foreseeable dangerous condition on the owner’s premises that is related to the owner’s self-service mode of operation.” Giglio, 128 Nev. at 281, 278 P.3d at 496 (quoting Sheehan, 863 N.E.2d at 1283).