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- A report commissioned by the governor and legislative leaders recommends that prison populations be decreased in times of health crises. [TNI]
- AG Aaron Ford discusses initial receipt of opioid settlement funds. [RJ]
- Hundreds of pinwheels to be planted during child abuse prevention month to promote need for CASA volunteers. [eighthjdcourt blog]
Pinwheels at family court? How exactly does that help recruit CASA volunteers? My high school teacher was retiring and looking for volunteer work and had never even heard of the CASA program. I fail to see how putting pinwheels in the ground at family court and posting on an unheard of blog helps recruit anyone. The entire abuse/neglect/dependency program is a mess.
You just proved why it works. You're talking about it.
CASA is at pretty much every community park event – Farmers Markets, etc. They are there, trying to recruit. The whole pinwheel thing just draws media attention. They aren't expecting that people will be walking out of Family Court after their divorce and TPR, see the pinwheels, and think "You know what? I'm a methhead with kids and teeth I can't see, but I think I should volunteer!"
No, 12:30, 11:52 did NOT learn about CASA volunteering from the pinwills at Family Court.
11:52 learned about it by reading the topics for this blog.
Well, I guess then indirectly 11:52 could be said to learn about it from pinwheels, since if the pinwheels didn't exist they never would have been discussed on this blog.
But directly observing pinwheels is, in general, a very ineffective way to promote things as people rarely pay attention to the content.
Just like the people twirling signs around to advertise apartment rentals or whatever. We seldom pay attention to what the signs indicate, although we may pay attention to the goofy moves and contortions of the sign twirlers(as we guess what substances are in their systems).
Uh…3:07, are you using that new thing known as sarcasm?
CASA is a wonderful organization that I fully support. However, I do not see how pinwheels, which immediately then become litter for someone to pick up, do anything to advance this cause.
Well, the health crisis (i.e. pandemic) is over, so no need to decrease the prison populations.
The largest city in the world is just now re-opening after yet another COVID lock down. We are NOT over the pandemic. We just stopped caring because masks are hard and Bill Gates is scary.
If people like you and I can "risk our lives" to get into our cars and drive ourselves to our respective offices and work a full day during the "pandemic" (which is actually now an endemic), prisoners can sit in their cells and reflect on the crimes they committed.
Not reflecting nor sitting in cells. Rather,
Smoking and joking with felow inmates in the pods.
Watching TV
Playing tennis
Passing the time until their early release and new opportunities to reoffend.
True, but better to keep them in there than out here with the rest of us law abiding people.
Interesting stuff coming out of the Nevada Supreme Court last week. (1) Sanson/ Willick hits the Supreme Court again on the effect of a voluntary dismissal in an Anti-SLAPP case. (2) Paul Padda and Ruth Cohen slugging it out over whether he had to pay her fee shares while she was suspended for not doing CLE.
Go Willick! The Anti-SLAPP interpretations are insane here. Effectively, anyone can say anything about an attorney and zoom – it's "protected." Read some of the latest cases. I can't remember the names darn it but I saw a couple crazy ones.
All Willick did was empower he who shall not be named. He never should have sued him. There is sufficient case law from other states, it was definitely NOT a slam dunk case and he was basically asking the supreme court to rule against free speech. It was a dumb idea. He should have taken heed of the Barbra Streisand effect and let it go.
I don't know Willick or Sanson, but I will say its a lot harder to be objective about things when you're right in the middle of it. That's part of why people hire us- to get our objective viewpoint, presumably for their benefit. Take Sanson's power away by ignoring him.
I won't out myself but I worked for Willick. He can be a nit of a bore and he loves himself for sure. But I saw him work round the clock to understand every nuance of family law and he truly is a scholar. Also, very honest to a fault. I saw him day in and day out billing fairly, etc. IMHO a great lawyer. Not someone I would have a beer with but a great lawyer.
SLAP cases are tricky tricky. Ask the City of Boulder when they paid out a lot for suing–naming their constituents in a lawsuit. I wonder if he who shall not be named will recover fees and costs against Willick or whoever. Ouch.
Mucho respect for Willick as a litigator. He will ride on his rep as much as any of us and attempt to intimidate with his resume if he can. However, if he is wrong and knows it, he will make his cursory argument and stand down. Its been a few years since I stood opposite him, but when I didnt back down and argued my facts and the law, he knew he was cooked and stood down. All too often, the Douchebags, when they are wrong, just get louder and more belligerent….Unfortunately, that shit tactic works more than it should. A more accurate statement about our FL Judges more than the Douchebags.
Agree with 1:32 and 2:24 that most of the time we kind of need to let it go when members of the public, or in some cases former clients, criticize and condemn us.
Because, yes, most of the time the resulting litigation is ineffective, very time-consuming, expensive, stressful and in general really draining. It becomes so time-consuming that it usually prevents the attorney from fully representing and billing paying clients and prevents us from taking on new paying clients at our former pace.
And in the relatively few cases of that sort that we actually prevail on, the person is likely judgement-proof, or at least effectively manipulates the situation to appear so.
Now that all said, I understand it can be a lot more difficult to ignore people spreading falsehoods than it used to be.
For example, 25 years ago some malcontent could presumably only effectively defame us to his/her small circle of friends, relatives and co-workers–most of whom would probably never even ever need a lawyer in the particular field we practice.
But these days, by the time we wake up some morning the malcontent could have started 12 websites overnight devoted to how terrible we supposedly are.
So, knowing that such "information" can now, theoretically-speaking, be seen by the whole world, understandably causes many of us to assertively react, and often to really over-react, to false internet references to us and our services.
I believe the origin story behind Sanson and Willick is that Willick went on his radio show. When he tried to give a coherent explanation of the law regarding VA benefits (as opposed to a chest thumping, flag waving rant), Sanson freaked out and has gone after Willick since then. Why he engaged such an obvious grifter is beyond me. Lay down with dogs, ya get fleas.
1:54's post is interesting. I just read Alex's threat to the guy who runs the court watching website. In it Alex referred to the guy, while threatening him, as a "grifter." The same word used above about Sanson, who Alex has a well-known beef with. So is this Alex posting here hmmmmm you decide. Not a very often used word and not used as an insult very often.
If you read or watch any main stream or left leaning media, you'd know they spent the last 7 years calling the trump family grifters on a daily basis. It's not that special of a word. 1:54 should know better than to say that name. He has an RSS feed to find out when someone is talking about him and then we get infested with trolls.
Speaking of SLAPP cases, look at the decision that just came down in the Anti-SLAPP case between Danny Simon and Bob Vannah. Case 82058
What a contrast. Have a hearing in one department where the judge dismissed a case when no one checked in by 9:02 for a 9 am hearing. Have another case where a judge has not even taken the bench as of 9:30 am for a 9 am hearing.
What was the Vannah v. Simon case about? It is an unpublished order. Anti Slapp so presumably defamation. Dismissed??? Case No. 82058