Fremont Street was never a high brow experience, but since the pandemic it has become awful. It is no longer Garth Brooks "friends in low places" charming, it's trashy and dangerous.
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March 24, 2023 6:43 pm
Wtf. We can do better than this.
>The lawsuit describes a morning of cleaning out “red-hot embers, churning burning soil and ripping out tree stumps” during a wildfire clean-up assignment in an area carpeted by hot soil and burning embers in April 2021.
>The lawsuit alleges that when the sole of one plaintiff’s boot melted off from the heat, a Nevada Division of Forestry supervisor duct-taped it back on and told her to continue working. When another plaintiff started crying from pain, the supervisor allegedly said, “You can keep crying as long as you keep working.”
>None of the seven plaintiffs received medical treatment that night.
>Two days later, the complaint said, four of the seven plaintiffs were taken to a Las Vegas hospital where they endured a painful procedure, with no medication, involving “hospital staff (cutting) away all the dead skin and tissue from burns on the bottoms of plaintiffs’ feet.”
>In Nevada, certain incarcerated people are eligible for wildland firefighting under certain requirements and are paid $24 per day.
Not a single person on this blog commented on that article or on your post. On a blog where lawyers come to gossip and judge pretty much everything, no one cares about the obviously horrific treatment of prisoners.
1) Thank you for caring
2) When our legal community doesn’t care, certainly our prison industrial complex won’t.
I prefer saying "alleged treatment" rather than "obviously horrific treatment[.]" Those prisoners get better and more affordable health care than my son who has cancer. I wasn't smart enough or poor enough to get college scholarships. I'm still paying off my student loans 20 years after graduation. I've never broken a law in my life. Honestly, you're right….I don't care. Move along.
10:54: Forcing prisoners to work for $24/day in conditions that give them 2nd degree burns on their feet and yelling at them to keep working when they are crying from the pain is ok because…*checks notes*…you didn’t get a scholarship to college.
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March 24, 2023 7:01 pm
Does anyone have a recommendation for someone that represents parents in CPS investigations? Friend reached out and this is way out of my area of practice, so any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
All the usual Willick, Jimmerson, etc.. Also, it can get very expensive because CPS can (probably rightfully) drag these out literally for years – can be literally a couple dozen hearings. In addition, many (for those who can afford it) work with a criminal lawyer in an advisory capacity as the CPS cases so often cross over. To evaluate my suggestions (I'm a former law clerk and had a CPS tract). My dream team – Willick and Sheets.
12:25 back. I forgot to write. Most of the CPS cases involves people with limited finances and fighting the government is difficult. So often, it can be hard to find someone actually willing to take the case.
I would never recommend Willick for a CPS case. Your friend can get an appointed attorney if they actually have to do a case plan. Otherwise I’d recommend someone like Beeson who regularly appears in that court.
Interesting, op back. My opinion could not be more different from u as my two least recommended would be Beeson or mcfarling. But that’s ok much respect to u for sharing and hope your weekend is awesome.
I have not weighed in on this topic but I do volunteer to do a fair number of CAP cases through LACSN (I know lots of you hate LACSN). Would it be great to get Willick or Jimmerson or Gentile or Chesnoff to come in and big ball an abuse and neglect case? Sure. The people in the abuse/neglect system cannot afford any of those people. Its ridiculous to even suggest them in the same way that its ridiculous to tell the guy at the Open Door Mission that his best chance to get a suit is at the Crystals Mall. Beeson gets cases as referrals because she is willing to do them and its a crappy track. She does a good job and cares about her clients.
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March 24, 2023 7:15 pm
If an attorney, Karen Connolly
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March 25, 2023 12:42 am
12:25 – did you say Sheets?? Can you explain?
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March 25, 2023 3:32 am
J. Scott McDonald disbarred by consent as of Friday, March 17, 2023. Surprised no one brought this up yet.
Fremont Street was never a high brow experience, but since the pandemic it has become awful. It is no longer Garth Brooks "friends in low places" charming, it's trashy and dangerous.
Wtf. We can do better than this.
>The lawsuit describes a morning of cleaning out “red-hot embers, churning burning soil and ripping out tree stumps” during a wildfire clean-up assignment in an area carpeted by hot soil and burning embers in April 2021.
>The lawsuit alleges that when the sole of one plaintiff’s boot melted off from the heat, a Nevada Division of Forestry supervisor duct-taped it back on and told her to continue working. When another plaintiff started crying from pain, the supervisor allegedly said, “You can keep crying as long as you keep working.”
>None of the seven plaintiffs received medical treatment that night.
>Two days later, the complaint said, four of the seven plaintiffs were taken to a Las Vegas hospital where they endured a painful procedure, with no medication, involving “hospital staff (cutting) away all the dead skin and tissue from burns on the bottoms of plaintiffs’ feet.”
>In Nevada, certain incarcerated people are eligible for wildland firefighting under certain requirements and are paid $24 per day.
Not a single person on this blog commented on that article or on your post. On a blog where lawyers come to gossip and judge pretty much everything, no one cares about the obviously horrific treatment of prisoners.
1) Thank you for caring
2) When our legal community doesn’t care, certainly our prison industrial complex won’t.
I prefer saying "alleged treatment" rather than "obviously horrific treatment[.]" Those prisoners get better and more affordable health care than my son who has cancer. I wasn't smart enough or poor enough to get college scholarships. I'm still paying off my student loans 20 years after graduation. I've never broken a law in my life. Honestly, you're right….I don't care. Move along.
Hate to break it to you.
ALL medical treatment in prison is not only horrific, its practically non-existent.
10:54: Forcing prisoners to work for $24/day in conditions that give them 2nd degree burns on their feet and yelling at them to keep working when they are crying from the pain is ok because…*checks notes*…you didn’t get a scholarship to college.
Does anyone have a recommendation for someone that represents parents in CPS investigations? Friend reached out and this is way out of my area of practice, so any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
All the usual Willick, Jimmerson, etc.. Also, it can get very expensive because CPS can (probably rightfully) drag these out literally for years – can be literally a couple dozen hearings. In addition, many (for those who can afford it) work with a criminal lawyer in an advisory capacity as the CPS cases so often cross over. To evaluate my suggestions (I'm a former law clerk and had a CPS tract). My dream team – Willick and Sheets.
12:25 back. I forgot to write. Most of the CPS cases involves people with limited finances and fighting the government is difficult. So often, it can be hard to find someone actually willing to take the case.
I would never recommend Willick for a CPS case. Your friend can get an appointed attorney if they actually have to do a case plan. Otherwise I’d recommend someone like Beeson who regularly appears in that court.
Interesting, op back. My opinion could not be more different from u as my two least recommended would be Beeson or mcfarling. But that’s ok much respect to u for sharing and hope your weekend is awesome.
Sorry I’m not the op I am the recommender of willick
I have not weighed in on this topic but I do volunteer to do a fair number of CAP cases through LACSN (I know lots of you hate LACSN). Would it be great to get Willick or Jimmerson or Gentile or Chesnoff to come in and big ball an abuse and neglect case? Sure. The people in the abuse/neglect system cannot afford any of those people. Its ridiculous to even suggest them in the same way that its ridiculous to tell the guy at the Open Door Mission that his best chance to get a suit is at the Crystals Mall. Beeson gets cases as referrals because she is willing to do them and its a crappy track. She does a good job and cares about her clients.
If an attorney, Karen Connolly
12:25 – did you say Sheets?? Can you explain?
J. Scott McDonald disbarred by consent as of Friday, March 17, 2023. Surprised no one brought this up yet.
Someone did either last Friday or last weekend – I don't see it though, may have been removed.
It was discussed on the Thursday March 16, 2023 thread at the bottom.
Joe wants to discipline students harsher than he does his own police force
Seems to be the standard here. OBC wants to disbar us for rules they themselves violate. Hurray for Nevada.