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Yet another woman killed by an intimate partner. I wonder if the number of deaths correlates to the abysmal TRO grant rates in this town. I guess we’ll never know…
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/family-ids-woman-shot-killed-by-boyfriend-in-north-las-vegas-3255573/
These domestic murder suicide stories have always revealed, IMO, that the perpetrator (almost always male, I’m male) thought of the female as his possession. Murder is the final act of control. I always wonder how the man came to think this way. I suspect it wasn’t a recent development, but that the murder suicide is the acute revelation. Did his father model poor behavior towards women? Was his father absent? What kind of friends did he have? What kind of other relationships did he have thorughout his life?
I agree. At its core, intimate partner violence is about control. Many men respond with emotional or physical violence when women fail to comply with male expectations or challenge men’s perceived authority to regulate women’s behavior (whether that has to do with sexual jealousy or any other thing that men feel entitled to control). This sense of entitlement to monitor, correct, and discipline women manifests in a wide range of coercive practices, including hostility, degradation, and threats. When women deviate from their prescribed “place,” such control escalates into physical violence. In its most extreme form, this violence results in femicide. As Lundy Bancroft argues, these acts are best understood not as crimes of passion, but as outcomes of entrenched power, entitlement, and coercive control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywsTdzkiPF0
I’m thinking about the Las Vegas/Arizona attorney, Marla Hudgens, who was killed by her husband along with their small children. If there are any women reading this blog and are experiencing domestic violence, know you are not alone. I’ve helped women attorneys in Las Vegas in this situation. And attorney Amanda Lee talks about attorneys experiencing domestic violence here: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/domestic_violence/Initiatives/five-for-five/domestic-violence-legal-profession/
Make a plan. Get out if you can.
She was a Boyd grad. Boyd didn’t say/do a thing in remembrance.
And I think she donated time/money to Boyd. So that’s really awful.
Her murder and that of her beloved children were heart-breaking. I worked with her at the NV SCT when she was a law clerk and she was a true joy to work with and be around.
I support granting of substantiated TPOs (TROs are something different). But if you think a piece of paper is going to stop a person so exorcised with their ex to be ready to murder them, well I will just disagree.
Do you have any empirical evidence for this claim? Or do you regularly comment on issues you don’t fully understand just for funsies?
Do you need empirical evidence that a single sheet of paper cannot and will not stop a bullet, knife or other weapon? TPOs are paper that are only as good as the LEO and then Court willing to act and enforce a TPO. The cases in which a victim has/had a TPO are illustrative of that relatively indisputable fact. As someone integrally involved in the Family Court system, too often people rely upon a TPO as a panacea for halting felonious violence.
But I will await your scientific and studies that you believe show a partner with homicidal intent is deterred by the chance of drawing a contempt of court finding for violating a TPO.
Often a TPO comes down to “he said/she said” and too often family court judges don’t grant them largely due to bias.
NV Supreme Court issued seven opinions last week including one that permits third-party beneficiaries to maintain legal malpractice claims and one about the NY Times seeking to unseal the Murdoch trust case.
how long do they take to decide whether to entertain a writ petition (generally speaking)?
do you have a link to the legal malpractice case or the case number?
https://nvcourts.gov/supreme. Bernstein v. Morris
Not a fan of Charleston v. Hardesty (yes, THAT Hardesty) being narrowed.
It was and is that Hardesty which made his hypocritical hangman ways on the Court all the more ironic.
Bernstein v. Morris is a CoA Opinion
The El Cortez case is interesting because while procedural rules have meaning, pretty much appears that El Cortez Reno got hometowned which is happening far too often with Washoe cases lately. ECR’s attorneys were in Las Vegas; Noble Pie’s attorney was in Washoe. Case is in Washoe. ECR asked for a short one-week extension on what would otherwise be a dispositive motion. Granting dismissal under the circumstances appears overly harsh (and trust me that I am no fan of either Dan Polsenberg or Ogonna).
The law probably does require that result but it sucks to see the refusal to grant the courtesy of a *one-week* extension rewarded. And yes, plaintiff’s counsel should have made the request earlier, but you should still grant your opponent a one-week extension unless time is of the essence.
The “rules are rules” bit was particularly obnoxious.
I hate that decision but am teeing it up right now for about 3 different motions where I plan to use it.
“And God created women”
A wonderful invention. Thank God.
The title is a reference to an important movie that starred an actress who became an unrepentant bigot for the last 30 years of her life.
Is it an important film? Written by an old man, it purports to unironically detail the desire of a teenage girl, her lust for older men, and her cruel ability to manipulate them through the promise of sex. He hits her. She responds with love. So if you mean an important film for understanding how men project their fantasies onto girls, sure. Otherwise the whole premise is mostly fantasy.
It is a film that was intended to 1) titillate in order to sell movie tickets and 2) to promote the director’s wife’s career. Nothing more. There was no intellectual premise or introspection, only sensationalism.