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- Daniel Stewart responds to being called out by former AG Adam Laxalt. [TNI]
- At least 2 people who work in Las Vegas Justice Court tested positive for COVID-19 last week. [RJ]
- Is a special legislative session in the works? [Nevada Current]
- Election Day is tomorrow and ballots are due by tomorrow night. [News3LV]
- Bryan Scott will be the next City Attorney for the City of Las Vegas. [RJ]
I don't know Daniel H. Stewart from Adam (pud intended). But that article is impressive.
When reasoned Republican voices push back at the shrill forces that have hijacked the party, there is some hope.
I know Dan and I've worked with him on election issues. He is brilliant. Somehow, while maintaining dignity and decorum he still managed to bitch-slap Adam Laxalt into next Tuesday. Talk about mic drop. That's gonna leave a mark, Adam!
That article is a beauty of a legal bitchslap to Laxalt.
>Rather than adjust to meet the needs of the voters, Republicans like Mr. Laxalt want to adjust the voting rules to meet the needs of Republicans. That truth is the real alarm that sensible Republicans should be sounding.
I dislike Laxalt and all he stands for. I believe in mail in ballots. However, I would not trust Barbara Cegavske to babysit my hamster. Her office is beyond dysfunctional and it is an embarrassment to the State of Nevada. It took 6 months and endless one hour long phone calls just to make my paralegal a notary.
Guys like Adam Laxalt engage in that kind of rhetoric assuming they won't be challenged. Miscalculation, Adam! I'd say this thing has quickly turned into a *TRAIN WRECK* for you!
1:47. I think you slipped that "train wreck" reference past the goalie, but for those of us who followed the '18 Governor's race, and who read the articles on his former firm's evaluation of his performance as an attorney, I say well done, 1:47, well done.
Was it ever discovered how that info.(which was of course to be internal and confidential) was ever leaked?
Interesting that the firm, possibly concerned about exposure for not sufficiently protecting such internal info. from very public dissemination, quickly came forward and now publicly gave very glowing(albeit revisionist) views of his tenure as an attorney for the firm.
Joyce Bass, a long term partner at L&R, and the partner that gave far and away the worse review, left L&R shortly after the review was leaked. I believe the story came out in August 2014, and she was gone in December. She went on to run her own firm for about a year, and then she went to legal aid. I have no clue whether she leaked, or whether the firm suspected that she leaked, but the way her long tenure at the firm ended fits exactly with how inconvenient things are handled at the firms I've worked for.
I know Daniel and have worked both with and against him on cases. He is reasonable and a gentleman. I wish more Republicans were like him. Actually, I wish more *people* were like him.
I thought Mr. Stewart's response was measured, civil, and accurate, all characteristics which seem to escape Mr. Laxalt's adolescent rant. I don't know Mr. Stewart and I would probably rank Rew Goodenow as the # 1 GOP election attorney in Nevada, but that's probably due largely to my knowing him.
The two should have lunch someday and compare notes on the current state of the GOP. I'll buy, just to hear what they have to say.
The problem that this little tizzy exposes is that smart, thoughtful, and measured people usually aren't the ones with the ego or delusions of grandeur necessary to make a run for high-level office. There are obviously exceptions. But it seems like now more than ever the only people running for office are the ideologues because they shout down the Stewart's of the world when they point out that reality doesn't jive with the platform. My tangent aside, excellent work Mr. Stewart.
New York Times article today likens LV casinos to "cruise ships on land." Do you agree? Visitors arrive with COVID-19, attend conferences, travel around to various casinos, pools, restaurants. Spreading COVID-19 while unbeknownst to them. It already happened and casino workers were admitted to hospital seriously ill. Local health districts can track their own residents, but the visitors circulate, leave after their vacations, and are not tracked. Health districts have data on cases at local institutions, but not per casino. Casinos gave out masks this week, but half of the visitors do not wear them. Super spreaders.
I think that's a fair analogy. Except that you can't force a casino to wait offshore while people are evaluated, etc. So it is potentially even worse. I may cautiously venture back to my local watering hole in a week or so, but any casino visits (which only amount to a few times a year for me anyway) will have to wait.
I think everyone should stay home from now on until we have either a cure for COVID-19 or a vaccine that had the requisite time to undergo clinical trials and is ready for public use, guaranteeing 80% or more effectiveness against all COVID strains.
Lest we all forget, we had maybe hundreds of thousands of visitors from mainland China for CES. Dollars to donuts the dreaded corona virus washed through here long before the Guv implemented the death to Vegas plan. Is this why his first round of executive orders made health data secret and not subject to records request or subpoena?
How do you sanitize chips and playing cards? Once a carrier/shedder touches one, the virus can be transmitted to the next player. A new deck for every new game won't solve the problem. Cleaning chips at the start or end of a shift won't solve the problem.
I don't see a good outcome for Las Vegas until there is a vaccine or herd immunity.
No gaming tables for me. I feel safer with machines. Fiesta needs to reopen please.
12:23: Perhaps you missed the announcement from our revered "scientists" that the Wuhan virus is not as contagious through touch as they had first announced? Chips and cards are not much danger.
Unless we have a huge spike in the number of virus infections in the next week or so, in Vegas, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, etc., then the lies of the virus will be exposed.
For the past ten days, thousands and thousands of "protestors," rioters and looters were jammed together without masks and without social distancing, and if our Lord Protectors were telling us the truth, then there should be a huge "second wave" right about now. If not, then the whole "shelter in place" meme that destroyed our economy was a lie.
@ 7:16 Not mention also the CDC said spread by non-symptomatic individuals is unlikely.
Just received a fishbowl invite with firms, is this legit?
I got the same thing.
What's a "fishbowl" invite?
It is an app for lawyers
I had it for a while. It seemed about as useful as LinkedIn. By which I mean not useful at all.
So I was watching CNN this morning and they had the president of the NAACP in Minneapolis on talking about recommended next steps for when the city's police department is abolished. From what I could make of the conversation, the plan is to create a group of first responders among those in the community. Then, if additional help was needed, they would call in the police (not sure what police) similar to how the national guard is utilized. Hmmmm, I thought, flipping over to Fox for some relief but finding none, one might ponder how these newly established first responders might expect to operate in their self-established roles.
There was no mention of upholding the law, nor arrest procedures, which (in our current world) requires a report articulating the reason for being at the scene, the facts of the incident as observed or through witness statements, and applying them to applicable elements of the law that were alleged to have been broken. The absence of this concern makes me think that such formalities may go by the wayside in the land of new justice. Or will there even be a process for justice at all? No laws supporting the enforcement action of the community police group, no reports justifying their actions, no training for ensured adherence to search and seizure parameters, warrants out the window, reasonable suspicion gone, probable cause not even considered, and no way to receive a fair trial. In fact, no trial is necessary when justice is handed out on the spot at the scene of the crime.
Playing that out, there will be no need for DA's or PD's, or even judges, at least for criminal matters.
This has my head spinning, or someone slipped a mickey in my coffee…either way, I'm confused. But I do know that if Metro and the other police agencies were disbanded here in Las Vegas, the valley would turn into the wild west within two weeks.
You seem to be focused on facts. Focus on feelings.
Focus on the feelings of other people . . . people who may not look or sound like you. It's not easy, but it might help you understand the movement and the ideas that are being discussed.
Only the craziest of the crazies are suggesting a total abolition of the various police departments. But there is definitely something to be said about redirecting some of their funding to community-based investments, and choking off the flow of military surplus gear.
I have heard two crazy things today, both utterly lacking common sense. 1. disband the police and rely on civilian community enforcers. 2. On this blog, focus on feelings, not facts.
As for Minneapolis, well, either the mob or gangs will take over the community policing, violent crime as well as petty theft will be rampant. Good luck with that.
As to focusing on feelings and not facts? What law school did you attend?
Good Grief!
Pretty sure 11:49 was being sarcastic.
With that said, I think the "defund the police" slogan is being taken too far, both by its extremist supporters and the people who wish to take advantage of the extremists. More people prefer to say "reform the police" and "demilitarize the police," which are reasonable requests. Further, most of the people who are interested in "defunding" police are not talking about cutting the budgets to zero, but rather to reduce the budgets and spend that money elsewhere — as 12:02 said.
With all the new gun owners, a vigilante force will arise. No police force = no business insurance, or property insurance for that matter. That seems sane?
@11:38 am How long have you been in Vegas? It's always been a lawless, wild wild west gambling town…
I have a question: In Re Discipline of Lerner, 197 P.2d 1067 (Nev. 2008) Kevin Rowe was employed as a paralegal/law clerk in Lerner's Las Vegas office. In March 2005, Rowe was admitted to practice law in the state of Arizona. He had not been admitted to practice law in Nevada. Since Rowe was an out of state attorney, could he and Lerner have split fees while he was acting a a law clerk/paralegal for Lerner? I said he could not but my associate says, "well, he was an out of state attorney."
I don't believe he's licensed in Nevada to this day. Isn't that really the same thing that happens when firms create a national presence? Not all the attorneys are licensed in every state but they share the profits.
No, Rowe was a nonlawyer for purposes of Nevada's RPCs, working on Nevada cases and Nevada clients without a Nevada license. Nor could he shelter under RPC 1.5(e) since that covers splitting fees with lawyers "who are not in the same firm." Regional/ national firms can't share Nevada fees directly with non-Nevada lawyers in the firm, but they can participate in the overall firm income. A bit of a fiction, to be true, but it does demand greater handling by Nevada-licensed counsel.
Nice to see a voice of reason explaining RPCs. Give Mr. Hooge a lesson in practical enforcement including frequent use of diversions and letters of caution for first time offenders.
Well considering that David was a reasonable Bar Counsel who handled the case, his explanation is obviously spot on. I would love to have David back in place of Hooge (and this is from someone who had a discipline action during David's regime).
RPCs do not exist in Nevada anymore, Hoggee and Nevada Court of Appeals.