There’s nothing racist about “Charlie.” I slightly prefer the napalm line because it’s more famous and because the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear “Charlie Don’t Surf” is the Clash song, not Apocalypse Now.
One of the most infamous scenes is when Duvall walks into a battle and orders everyone to drop everything because the surf is up. Charlie is NOT a racist term. VC = Viet Cong (the NAME of the Northern Forces) = Victor Charlie on the radio. Surely you are not that stupid?
Viet Cong were NOT the northern forces. VC was rebels based in south, allied with the North Vietnamese Army, for which some people used “Nathaniel Victor.”
“What the hell do you know about surfing, major, you’re from goddamn New Jersey!”
The one who is not supporting the guy who has tanked Nevada’s economy, created an outrageous unemployment rate in the state, and who is continuously motivating tourists to vacation in other countries (among other things).
“motivating tourists to vacation in other countries”
Probably not true. The factor likely is that Las Vegas used to be a good place to visit several times a year. Now, you have to max out your credit card to spend a weekend here. Think greed.
Canada not showing up is not based on expense. They no longer feel welcome in the US and don’t want to support our economy. Many others from other countries are also avoiding US vacations because of our current political situation. Nevada may not be the target, but we certainly feel the tourist impact more than most. Lombardo is not speaking out against the policies that are driving away the tourists. I hope we can make it 3 more years, but we sure as hell will not survive 7 years of declining tourist numbers — especially when Lombardo has done virtually nothing to diversity our economy. And bending over to appease Elon Musk and his buddies has not created the windfall that was promised.
“It’s not his political party that opposes the [S]ummerlin move studio”? Three Republican state senators were not present for the final vote on AB5–any one of whom, had he or she voted yes, would’ve been the decisive vote on the bill passing. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/36th2025Special/Bill/12997/Votes
Those three who didn’t show up, at least two of them were understood to be yes votes. Ultimately Lombardo didn’t deliver enough R votes. It’s wild to say his political party didn’t oppose the movie studio.
And assuming my counting is correct, only a single Republican state senator voted in favor of the bill, 4 voted no, and 3 didn’t show up to vote (same effect as a no vote); by contrast, 9 Democratic state senators voted yes and 4 voted no.
Seems like more Republicans defected or dodged (4+3=7) than did Democrats (4). So yes, it’s laughable to say it’s not Lombardo’s party that opposed the movie studio.
Eglet gave money to Lombardo. Ford isn’t who Eglet deparately wanted him to be. Easy to predict Ford and his wife will end up being just another two in a very long and storied line of Nevada political grifters. He’s peaked and now he’s on his way out.
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February 17, 2026 12:17 pm
How often have you all seen a motion by an arbitrator to increase their fees? Stranger still, how many of you have seen such a thing well before the case even gets to the arbitration? The arbitrator’s request is thoroughly absurd, but it is a bit troubling being put in the position of opposing the request for the increase of fees before the arbitration happen. I’m sure things will go GREAT if I oppose the request. Oh, and the arbitrator seeks more than double the limit.
As an arbitrator for over a decade, I can say that I have never filed to increase my fees. I have many times gone over the limit and just reduced to the limit. You don’t become a court appointed arbitrator for the money.
Concur. Although there are a few cases in which the parties are constantly emailing the arbitrator, bringing “motions”, or asking for pre-arbitration hearings over childish issues. Most often (but not always) this happens where one party is self-represented. I have always eaten the extra time but am rethinking the billing next time.
i have been an arbitrator since before the cap was even $25k. I have never once filed a motion to increase my fee. If I have to write off an hour or two then I do. But I would point out that, at least as of right now, the fee structure remains the same, even though the cap is going to $100k. I can forsee filing such motions in the future on the bigger files if the fee cap remains where it is now. There is a big difference in workload and time commitment between a low-impact fender bender that might be worth $25k dripping wet (which describes about 2/3 of my arbs that actually go to hearing), versus a high five-figure case with disputed liability, retained experts, etc.
Just arbitrated a $50k claim, med mal, three experts, two witnesses, all live testimony. Endless cross. Pre-arb motions. Couldn’t bill for all of my time because of the threshold. Did not want to petition the Commissioner for extra fees.
My understanding is parents are not liable for the torts of their children in Nevada, except that there is an exception where they can get hit with up to $10K in damages in certain limited circumstances. So, are the Dawson parents of the rapists essentially immune from civil liability here?
Yes, a parent’s joint and several liability for the minor child’s “willful misconduct” is $10,000 per act. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-041.html#NRS041Sec470 But the parents can be hit with their own liability for negligent supervision claims which isn’t subject to that cap.
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February 17, 2026 2:20 pm
“the District Court announced it has issued 21 Notices of Disclosure related to cases where attorney Matt Addison or his former law firm appeared before Judge Robb at any point, either in Washoe Family Court or in Robb’s role as a settlement judge” – Yikes. 21 cases where the party who settled (without any disclosure of the personal relationship) or had an adverse judgment should be asking for a do over.
Are these NRCP 60(b) motions? Is there a time frame where a judge would cut the review off? 6 years? something different?
In order to go against the settlement they have to renege and return the money. Not a likely scenario. Mediators (Settlement Judge) don’t settle cases. The parties settle them. There are all kinds of defenses to unraveling the settlement because of the conflict. Plus you have to show the conflict substantially affected the settlement or outcome. I bet nothing comes of it unless it is a family court case with on going issues.
As a practical matter, how many clients are going to want to try and unwind a settlement from 2017 or something, because maybe they got a bad deal due to the undisclosed relationship? Everyone has moved on, witnesses are unavailable, and the file was shredded in 2024. Doesn’t excuse non-disclosure, but realistically probably not much effect on closed cases.
i knew Bridget before she was a judge, and always held her in pretty high regard. The stalking stuff came as a shock, and while I obviously don’t excuse it, I tried to look at it as the behavior of someone who obviously needs help with her mental health, and to lean more toward compassion than judgment. Probably somewhat biased in her favor based on knowing her. But not disclosing 21 conflicts, assuming that information is accurate, is a different story. Not good.
I dated an attorney, broke up, and he later became a judge. I never appeared in front of him. I cannot imagine appearing in front of a judge I was actually dating. What were they thinking?
This is my feeling. I knew Bridget. She was a good and accomplished litigator and would have been a great general jurisdiction judge in the Second. The whole story makes me sad.
Kalshi is such a trash, shit product. Legalized gambling is already wrecking the NBA with the betting companies pressuring Adam Silver to stop tanking to protect the reliability of the O/U.
They should stop tanking to protect the league from losing fans. In the year of our lord, Danny Ainge Tank 15, I no longer know any of the names of the players on the Jazz, I no longer watch games, and I no longer care what happens to the team. I feel so free escaping from yet another Utah cult. Thanks, Danny Ainge. I’m saving hundreds a year not buying league pass, jerseys, tickets to games, or Jazz hats and I can’t see myself ever going back.
” I feel so free escaping from yet another Utah cult.” Nobody mentioned anything about Utah or religion. ExMormons are like vegans and crossfitters in their determined ability to turn any conversation towards their ExMormon identity.
Really? Is it ex-mormons who knock on my door once a week with name tags trying to sell me their “plan of salvation” You say us ex-mos can’t leave it alone and yet, I have asked repeatedly to be left alone and they won’t stop coming by. Ministering. Cards on my birthday. Missionaries wanting to share a spiritual message. God damn. It’s like I’m an NPC in their jesus role playing adventure.
Then you’re going to see every team close to making the playoffs tank insanely hard. Right now making the playoffs makes you lose a 0.5% to get Victor Wembayama. Under your system you’d be giving up a 7% chance – 14x more. And a .500 team doing everything it can to avoid the playoffs looks ways worse than some team that clearly was never good to begin with holding out its best player.
The CFTC Amicus Briefing was a joke. The Administration throwing its support to these unregulated services could be one of the most destructive decisions (in a line of many) it has made.
Not bad on the headline. I guess we are too PC to go with “Charlie don’t Surf” to honor him?
@10:41am yes it so very, very PC to use Duvall’s most quoted line rather than explicitly racist terminology. Sheesh.
There’s nothing racist about “Charlie.” I slightly prefer the napalm line because it’s more famous and because the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear “Charlie Don’t Surf” is the Clash song, not Apocalypse Now.
One of the most infamous scenes is when Duvall walks into a battle and orders everyone to drop everything because the surf is up. Charlie is NOT a racist term. VC = Viet Cong (the NAME of the Northern Forces) = Victor Charlie on the radio. Surely you are not that stupid?
Viet Cong were NOT the northern forces. VC was rebels based in south, allied with the North Vietnamese Army, for which some people used “Nathaniel Victor.”
“What the hell do you know about surfing, major, you’re from goddamn New Jersey!”
Charlie Don’t Surf is a line Duvall says in the movie, moron
Ford is puppet of Eglet, Lombardo is puppet of Trump. Which puppet do you like best?
No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.
Isn’t Eglet supporting Lombardo? Seems counterproductive if Ford is his puppet.
It’s win-win? He’s playing both sides. It’s like a high-low where he represents both sides.
Fozzie Bear. Wait, you were talking about Muppets, right?
The one who is not supporting the guy who has tanked Nevada’s economy, created an outrageous unemployment rate in the state, and who is continuously motivating tourists to vacation in other countries (among other things).
“motivating tourists to vacation in other countries”
Probably not true. The factor likely is that Las Vegas used to be a good place to visit several times a year. Now, you have to max out your credit card to spend a weekend here. Think greed.
Canada not showing up is not based on expense. They no longer feel welcome in the US and don’t want to support our economy. Many others from other countries are also avoiding US vacations because of our current political situation. Nevada may not be the target, but we certainly feel the tourist impact more than most. Lombardo is not speaking out against the policies that are driving away the tourists. I hope we can make it 3 more years, but we sure as hell will not survive 7 years of declining tourist numbers — especially when Lombardo has done virtually nothing to diversity our economy. And bending over to appease Elon Musk and his buddies has not created the windfall that was promised.
What u smoking, Willis?
You’re blaming Lombardo for failing to diversify our economy? It’s not his political party that opposes the summerlin movie studio, for one example.
“It’s not his political party that opposes the [S]ummerlin move studio”? Three Republican state senators were not present for the final vote on AB5–any one of whom, had he or she voted yes, would’ve been the decisive vote on the bill passing. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/36th2025Special/Bill/12997/Votes
Those three who didn’t show up, at least two of them were understood to be yes votes. Ultimately Lombardo didn’t deliver enough R votes. It’s wild to say his political party didn’t oppose the movie studio.
And assuming my counting is correct, only a single Republican state senator voted in favor of the bill, 4 voted no, and 3 didn’t show up to vote (same effect as a no vote); by contrast, 9 Democratic state senators voted yes and 4 voted no.
Seems like more Republicans defected or dodged (4+3=7) than did Democrats (4). So yes, it’s laughable to say it’s not Lombardo’s party that opposed the movie studio.
Eglet gave money to Lombardo. Ford isn’t who Eglet deparately wanted him to be. Easy to predict Ford and his wife will end up being just another two in a very long and storied line of Nevada political grifters. He’s peaked and now he’s on his way out.
How often have you all seen a motion by an arbitrator to increase their fees? Stranger still, how many of you have seen such a thing well before the case even gets to the arbitration? The arbitrator’s request is thoroughly absurd, but it is a bit troubling being put in the position of opposing the request for the increase of fees before the arbitration happen. I’m sure things will go GREAT if I oppose the request. Oh, and the arbitrator seeks more than double the limit.
As an arbitrator for over a decade, I can say that I have never filed to increase my fees. I have many times gone over the limit and just reduced to the limit. You don’t become a court appointed arbitrator for the money.
Concur. Although there are a few cases in which the parties are constantly emailing the arbitrator, bringing “motions”, or asking for pre-arbitration hearings over childish issues. Most often (but not always) this happens where one party is self-represented. I have always eaten the extra time but am rethinking the billing next time.
i have been an arbitrator since before the cap was even $25k. I have never once filed a motion to increase my fee. If I have to write off an hour or two then I do. But I would point out that, at least as of right now, the fee structure remains the same, even though the cap is going to $100k. I can forsee filing such motions in the future on the bigger files if the fee cap remains where it is now. There is a big difference in workload and time commitment between a low-impact fender bender that might be worth $25k dripping wet (which describes about 2/3 of my arbs that actually go to hearing), versus a high five-figure case with disputed liability, retained experts, etc.
Just arbitrated a $50k claim, med mal, three experts, two witnesses, all live testimony. Endless cross. Pre-arb motions. Couldn’t bill for all of my time because of the threshold. Did not want to petition the Commissioner for extra fees.
I thought med mal was an auto exemption?
My understanding is parents are not liable for the torts of their children in Nevada, except that there is an exception where they can get hit with up to $10K in damages in certain limited circumstances. So, are the Dawson parents of the rapists essentially immune from civil liability here?
Yes, a parent’s joint and several liability for the minor child’s “willful misconduct” is $10,000 per act. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-041.html#NRS041Sec470 But the parents can be hit with their own liability for negligent supervision claims which isn’t subject to that cap.
“the District Court announced it has issued 21 Notices of Disclosure related to cases where attorney Matt Addison or his former law firm appeared before Judge Robb at any point, either in Washoe Family Court or in Robb’s role as a settlement judge” – Yikes. 21 cases where the party who settled (without any disclosure of the personal relationship) or had an adverse judgment should be asking for a do over.
Are these NRCP 60(b) motions? Is there a time frame where a judge would cut the review off? 6 years? something different?
“A reasonable time.”
So, a settlement that occurred 10 years ago is fair game? I agree it should be.
In order to go against the settlement they have to renege and return the money. Not a likely scenario. Mediators (Settlement Judge) don’t settle cases. The parties settle them. There are all kinds of defenses to unraveling the settlement because of the conflict. Plus you have to show the conflict substantially affected the settlement or outcome. I bet nothing comes of it unless it is a family court case with on going issues.
As a practical matter, how many clients are going to want to try and unwind a settlement from 2017 or something, because maybe they got a bad deal due to the undisclosed relationship? Everyone has moved on, witnesses are unavailable, and the file was shredded in 2024. Doesn’t excuse non-disclosure, but realistically probably not much effect on closed cases.
i knew Bridget before she was a judge, and always held her in pretty high regard. The stalking stuff came as a shock, and while I obviously don’t excuse it, I tried to look at it as the behavior of someone who obviously needs help with her mental health, and to lean more toward compassion than judgment. Probably somewhat biased in her favor based on knowing her. But not disclosing 21 conflicts, assuming that information is accurate, is a different story. Not good.
I dated an attorney, broke up, and he later became a judge. I never appeared in front of him. I cannot imagine appearing in front of a judge I was actually dating. What were they thinking?
You would think he would have said, hey, I have a personal relationship with her, we have to kick her. Easy peasy.
This is my feeling. I knew Bridget. She was a good and accomplished litigator and would have been a great general jurisdiction judge in the Second. The whole story makes me sad.
Any judge is gonna look at diligence relative to the disclosure, not the settlement/judgment.
Big Decision for Nevada Casinos in Kalshi case. 9th circuit.
Kalshi is such a trash, shit product. Legalized gambling is already wrecking the NBA with the betting companies pressuring Adam Silver to stop tanking to protect the reliability of the O/U.
They should stop tanking to protect the league from losing fans. In the year of our lord, Danny Ainge Tank 15, I no longer know any of the names of the players on the Jazz, I no longer watch games, and I no longer care what happens to the team. I feel so free escaping from yet another Utah cult. Thanks, Danny Ainge. I’m saving hundreds a year not buying league pass, jerseys, tickets to games, or Jazz hats and I can’t see myself ever going back.
” I feel so free escaping from yet another Utah cult.” Nobody mentioned anything about Utah or religion. ExMormons are like vegans and crossfitters in their determined ability to turn any conversation towards their ExMormon identity.
Because they grew up in the LDS Church where trained in their determined ability to turn any conversation towards their Mormon identity.
Really? Is it ex-mormons who knock on my door once a week with name tags trying to sell me their “plan of salvation” You say us ex-mos can’t leave it alone and yet, I have asked repeatedly to be left alone and they won’t stop coming by. Ministering. Cards on my birthday. Missionaries wanting to share a spiritual message. God damn. It’s like I’m an NPC in their jesus role playing adventure.
I know there’s not an easy fix, but i think i’m all in on the teams that don’t make the playoffs get an equal shot at winning the draft lottery.
Then you’re going to see every team close to making the playoffs tank insanely hard. Right now making the playoffs makes you lose a 0.5% to get Victor Wembayama. Under your system you’d be giving up a 7% chance – 14x more. And a .500 team doing everything it can to avoid the playoffs looks ways worse than some team that clearly was never good to begin with holding out its best player.
The CFTC Amicus Briefing was a joke. The Administration throwing its support to these unregulated services could be one of the most destructive decisions (in a line of many) it has made.
No, there are far, far more destructive ones than this.