Groundhog Day 2024

  • Law
  • Did residents at Boulder City veterans home die because of COVID-19 testing lapse? [RJ]
  • Immigration lawyer Michael Kagan laments Lombardo’s “dangerous” support of Texas defying Supreme Court. [Nevada Current]
  • Clark County teachers union urges school board to reject resignation terms, suggesting the timing is suspicious. [TNI; 8NewsNow]
  • Who killed 19 wild burros? [RJ]
  • Not Vegas, but interesting piece: Louisiana law gives judges a financial incentive to set high bail and secure convictions. [Type Investigations]
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February 2, 2024 11:38 am

Remember that lawyer who brandished a handgun at a deposition and only got suspended for 6 months? Great job state bar.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 12:13 pm
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Wasn’t that Pengilly?

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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 12:23 pm
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What does the word brandish mean again?

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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 12:34 pm
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Yay, let’s have another 20-post semantics argument.

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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 1:23 pm
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I often wonder about what happened to a lot of the people that have been mentioned here over the years. I know some went to prison, some left the state, but what are they doing now?

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February 2, 2024 2:18 pm
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Nelson Cohen is a paralegal at Ralph Schwartz’ office.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 3:28 pm
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I think political candidates in Texas get elected for this type of thing.

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February 2, 2024 1:08 pm

So ok to talk bout pengilly but if mention guy always in trouble w bar, his name rhymes with he baud oh, it gets thwacked. I’m inventing new word today for hypocritical thwack age. HypoThwack. Let’s see if it sticks

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February 2, 2024 1:17 pm
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Ackchyually, I don’t think the discussion about Pengilly isn’t anything like the wacko discussion(s) that accompany the individual you are referring to. Go cry somewhere else.

Anonymous
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February 2, 2024 1:23 pm
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Hahaha how can one even respond to that. Touch a nerve did I?

Anonymous
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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 1:23 pm
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You’re a hyper hypo

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Anonymous
February 2, 2024 2:41 pm
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Go away Tara

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February 4, 2024 11:34 am
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I think the Blawg has addressed this distinction. Blog does not want to get sued so discussion of people who the Blog believes to be litigious is more likely to be thwacked.

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February 5, 2024 9:50 am
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The attorney in question handles anti-SLAPP pretty frequently. ONJ covered a hearing he handled against another attorney who tried suing the daughter of his former client for a comment on facebook. Ackchyually the blog should talk to him about being on standby for silly lawsuits by lawyers with delicate feelings. The ONJ hearing was pretty funny.

Alex Ghibaudo
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Alex Ghibaudo
February 5, 2024 2:48 pm
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Queuing up a complaint now. I’l say it again…you’re all silly fucking cunts.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
February 4, 2024 9:18 am

WTF is this new “Terms of Use” from Tyler Tech shenanigans that I have to agree to EVERY. SINGLE. LOGIN? Are they that afraid of a RECAP situation? (For those unaware, RECAP started as a way to capture PACER filings for review or search later without paying an additional fee. You visited a PACER filing, it automatically saved it in the RECAP database.) From the new, terribly-formatted Terms of Use: “You will not . . . engage in or permit any bulk copying or bulk distribution of the records, data, databases, documents, materials, and other information accessible through the Portal or store such information in a searchable database.” What’s “bulk”? What’s a “searchable database”? Is my case management system a database? You’re dealing with lawyers, TT. Get serious, please.

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Anonymous
February 4, 2024 11:32 am
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I suspect that this is a response to the “Public Copy Request” that you will often see on the bottom of your filings where Unicourt or someone like that sells access to the documents to Tyler’s disadvantage.

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Anonymous
February 4, 2024 3:24 pm
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Whatever it is, it’s nonsense. The underlying records are public records. There’s no private right of ownership in them, and whoever wants to download them or pay for them can republish them or repurpose them however they choose.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
February 5, 2024 2:33 pm
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Public – except when they’re not, like accessing an FDF by the attorney of record in a custody or divorce case.

Anonymous
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February 5, 2024 3:10 pm
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Of course properly sealed and otherwise confidential records are not intended to be captured, but the default rule is they are public records. We should resist any effort to make it harder to see these records.

Anonymous
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February 6, 2024 4:57 pm
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You know what’s really bonkers? Whenever I file something in Odyssey, I open it up from the summary page, just to double check and give it one last set of eyes. I have to enter my email address in order to view the document I just uploaded, but haven’t yet filed. Mind you, I’m still very much logged in.
Whoever is driving the changes at TT is insane.