Former Lodge bartended forced to pay back thousands after the business was the victim of an armed robbery has sued hie former employer. He is represented by Sam Mirejovsky and Amanda Brookhyser. [8NewsNow]
The two doctors who didn’t want to be identified with the proposed execution of Zane Floyd have withdrawn from consideration. [US News]
Some early polling numbers on what is shaping up to be a battle of two attorneys running for the Senate. [TNI]
Case dropped against man accused of hate crimes against Asian business owner. [RJ]
Clark County reported 52 Covid deaths, the fourth highest one-day total of the pandemic. [8NewsNow]
Have you checked recently to see if Nevada has any of your unclaimed property? [KTNV]
I like Sam and Ash as much as any PI lawyers in Vegas. They saw a market opportunity in the legal landscape our backwater plaintiffs' bar bought but could not defend. Now Sam and Ash are eating their lunch with what appears to be relative ease. It's funny to hear the hammerheads complain about the great whites eating all the chum.
@3:42, what gives you the impression Sam & Ash are eating the plaintiffs' bar's lunch with relative ease? The pair obviously invested a huge amount of its CA money into marketing down here (billboards, radio/tv ads, etc), but a quick search of the Eighth Judicial Court records shows the two have only filed on ~40 cases. I understand the majority of cases (dare I say vast majority of cases?) are settled pre-litigation, however, 40 cases still seems like a relatively low ROI for how often I am forced to see their face/hear their ads. Just my two cents.
4:26 – You are sort of right, but a bit off. Mr. Mirejovsky have never filed a Complaint in Nevada on his own. If you look at the Court records, it is always either Tim O'Reilly or Gerry Gillock or someone else. They do not litigate their own cases. They are on the signature block, however, for some reason…
@ 3:42, I am curious/interested in what the market opp you referenced is? I don't practice PI but am truly fascinated by the marketing done by PI firms in this town. E.g., that Dimopolous (?) guy–is there a client sector that is looking for a dark, brooding PI lawyer who looks like a club host??? I kind of get the "goofy but tough almost-blue-collar" appeal of the heavy hitter but for some of the others … I really do wonder.
@8:39, I am not 3:42 but I have several friends who practice PI – all of which have relayed the same info about Dimopoulos. Supposedly Dimopoulos' marketing budget is fueled by the $1m+ investment by his parents into his firm. However, most of his clients do not find him from these ads. Apparently he has ownership in at least one surgery center here in town and relies heavily on local MD's and their referral network.
Amazing that OBC has the time and resources to seek harsher punishment on Jimmerson but won't even bother to look at practices like these that are so well-known to those in the profession.
If an atty's lien company is holding their client's liens they are directly opposed to their client's interests ("Sorry we couldn't get you better reductions on your bills, this was the best the lien company would offer") – and even if they were only holding non-clients' liens, I imagine there is a lot of back-room, artful negotiations akin to "I'll reduce on this lien for x, y, and z"…
Dimopoulos: "Millions recovered monthly." Can this possibly be true?
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February 2, 2022 6:22 pm
As a former history major, I love seeing that 10:07 is bringing back "carpet bagging." On a different note, I also love seeing cancel culture eat one of their own i.e., CNN has promoted CC and now Zucker has been canceled over what, IMHO, should be no one's business (a consensual relationship). And those two comments are my contribution to the blog today.
@10:22
Carpet bagging – I suspect that few of the under 40 kids know anything about carpet bagging or the dynamics in the South after the unpleasantness between the states.
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February 2, 2022 7:37 pm
Johns Hopkins has some interesting findings on the effectiveness of lockdowns on Covid today…………
Classic example of non-news. Two physicians who were chosen to oversee an execution which will never take place no longer want any part of the execution that will never take place.
So, that fits squarely into all "news" concerning any death row inmates in Nevada. None of these inmates will ever come close to being executed, so any news about their pending non-executions is senseless.
We've had inmates on Nevada Death Row since the 70's and 80's.
Like a lot of states with the Death Penalty, all it amounts to in Nevada, in each such case, is decades spent, and millions spent, on legal proceedings as to whether the pending execution, which will never take place, should in fact take place.
So, either abolish it in Nevada(which I believe is the preferred option considering the existing state of affairs), or maintain it but dramatically revamp it so it may actually have some possible meaningful impact.
But Nevada is not alone in this. Many states with a Death Penalty option follow the same senseless model–decades of delays on each case, wherein the inmate will never come remotely close to being executed.
Now that said, I worry even far more about Death Penalty states that are too "efficient"–like Texas, Florida, etc. Grievous errors are far more likely to occur in states where the inmate is executed in far less than a decade after sentence is pronounced. Also, such states don't seem to necessarily just reserve the death penalty to the cases that are the most egregious and shocking.
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February 2, 2022 8:14 pm
Hey, Man, 12:07, please don't lecture us.
But that said, you are basically right, but you are not really taking some controversial or risky stand, although it appears you may think you are.
I don't think most of us would disagree that if we are going to maintain the death penalty, it is not working in states like Nevada where these inmates are on death row for decades. Likewise, I think most of us would agree that in the(relatively few) states that are too aggressive with the death penalty, this creates far more of a risk of grievous error and injustice.
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February 2, 2022 8:20 pm
12:07,12:14–Obviously, in the few states that tend to be far too "efficient" with the death penalty, the possibility of grievous error and irreversible injustice you both refer to, at least in more recent years, is those case where DNA evidence that was preserved is finally analyzed and clears the defendant–but far too late to do the defendant any good.
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February 2, 2022 8:24 pm
12:20, those few cases where that occurs are absolutely heart-breaking. Fortunately, usually this DNA evidence clears the defendant while the defendant is still alive(albeit usually with many years already served).
But there are a few reported cases where the exonerating evidence clears the defendant after the defendant has already been executed. And that grave injustice does not recede over time as surviving family members(of the wrongfully executed) will continue to suffer each day of their life.
Lodge bartender is represented by Sam Mirejovsky from Sam & Ash?? CA-carpet bagging, personal injury lawyer turned employment lawyer?
He made sure to co-counsel with a competent employment attorney so they can litigate the case and he can get his name in the news.
And you both wish that you had their money……..
But carpet baggers they are.
@10:25, ok Sam… Remember to bring your little wiener dog to the photoshoot so it can be featured in the newspaper article when this is all over
1025, here – Not Sam. I didn't say that they weren't tools. They sound like they are. But, you still wish you had his money.
I like Sam and Ash as much as any PI lawyers in Vegas. They saw a market opportunity in the legal landscape our backwater plaintiffs' bar bought but could not defend. Now Sam and Ash are eating their lunch with what appears to be relative ease. It's funny to hear the hammerheads complain about the great whites eating all the chum.
Great metaphor. Well said.
@3:42, what gives you the impression Sam & Ash are eating the plaintiffs' bar's lunch with relative ease? The pair obviously invested a huge amount of its CA money into marketing down here (billboards, radio/tv ads, etc), but a quick search of the Eighth Judicial Court records shows the two have only filed on ~40 cases. I understand the majority of cases (dare I say vast majority of cases?) are settled pre-litigation, however, 40 cases still seems like a relatively low ROI for how often I am forced to see their face/hear their ads. Just my two cents.
A wiener dog is better than a fake court room.
4:26 – You are sort of right, but a bit off. Mr. Mirejovsky have never filed a Complaint in Nevada on his own. If you look at the Court records, it is always either Tim O'Reilly or Gerry Gillock or someone else. They do not litigate their own cases. They are on the signature block, however, for some reason…
@ 3:42, I am curious/interested in what the market opp you referenced is? I don't practice PI but am truly fascinated by the marketing done by PI firms in this town. E.g., that Dimopolous (?) guy–is there a client sector that is looking for a dark, brooding PI lawyer who looks like a club host??? I kind of get the "goofy but tough almost-blue-collar" appeal of the heavy hitter but for some of the others … I really do wonder.
@8:39, I am not 3:42 but I have several friends who practice PI – all of which have relayed the same info about Dimopoulos. Supposedly Dimopoulos' marketing budget is fueled by the $1m+ investment by his parents into his firm. However, most of his clients do not find him from these ads. Apparently he has ownership in at least one surgery center here in town and relies heavily on local MD's and their referral network.
Some PI attys also have ownership interests in local medical lien companies as well. It's cozy.
Amazing that OBC has the time and resources to seek harsher punishment on Jimmerson but won't even bother to look at practices like these that are so well-known to those in the profession.
If an atty's lien company is holding their client's liens they are directly opposed to their client's interests ("Sorry we couldn't get you better reductions on your bills, this was the best the lien company would offer") – and even if they were only holding non-clients' liens, I imagine there is a lot of back-room, artful negotiations akin to "I'll reduce on this lien for x, y, and z"…
Dimopoulos: "Millions recovered monthly." Can this possibly be true?
As a former history major, I love seeing that 10:07 is bringing back "carpet bagging." On a different note, I also love seeing cancel culture eat one of their own i.e., CNN has promoted CC and now Zucker has been canceled over what, IMHO, should be no one's business (a consensual relationship). And those two comments are my contribution to the blog today.
I think Mitt Romney already popularized the term carpetbagger in recent times.
@ 12:39 you misspelled HRC
@10:22
Carpet bagging – I suspect that few of the under 40 kids know anything about carpet bagging or the dynamics in the South after the unpleasantness between the states.
Johns Hopkins has some interesting findings on the effectiveness of lockdowns on Covid today…………
It's fake news. Come on man.
Classic example of non-news. Two physicians who were chosen to oversee an execution which will never take place no longer want any part of the execution that will never take place.
So, that fits squarely into all "news" concerning any death row inmates in Nevada. None of these inmates will ever come close to being executed, so any news about their pending non-executions is senseless.
We've had inmates on Nevada Death Row since the 70's and 80's.
Like a lot of states with the Death Penalty, all it amounts to in Nevada, in each such case, is decades spent, and millions spent, on legal proceedings as to whether the pending execution, which will never take place, should in fact take place.
So, either abolish it in Nevada(which I believe is the preferred option considering the existing state of affairs), or maintain it but dramatically revamp it so it may actually have some possible meaningful impact.
But Nevada is not alone in this. Many states with a Death Penalty option follow the same senseless model–decades of delays on each case, wherein the inmate will never come remotely close to being executed.
Now that said, I worry even far more about Death Penalty states that are too "efficient"–like Texas, Florida, etc. Grievous errors are far more likely to occur in states where the inmate is executed in far less than a decade after sentence is pronounced. Also, such states don't seem to necessarily just reserve the death penalty to the cases that are the most egregious and shocking.
Hey, Man, 12:07, please don't lecture us.
But that said, you are basically right, but you are not really taking some controversial or risky stand, although it appears you may think you are.
I don't think most of us would disagree that if we are going to maintain the death penalty, it is not working in states like Nevada where these inmates are on death row for decades. Likewise, I think most of us would agree that in the(relatively few) states that are too aggressive with the death penalty, this creates far more of a risk of grievous error and injustice.
12:07,12:14–Obviously, in the few states that tend to be far too "efficient" with the death penalty, the possibility of grievous error and irreversible injustice you both refer to, at least in more recent years, is those case where DNA evidence that was preserved is finally analyzed and clears the defendant–but far too late to do the defendant any good.
12:20, those few cases where that occurs are absolutely heart-breaking. Fortunately, usually this DNA evidence clears the defendant while the defendant is still alive(albeit usually with many years already served).
But there are a few reported cases where the exonerating evidence clears the defendant after the defendant has already been executed. And that grave injustice does not recede over time as surviving family members(of the wrongfully executed) will continue to suffer each day of their life.