It Is Axiomatic That A Judge Must Follow The Law

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  • The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline issued its findings and imposed discipline on Judge Erika Ballou–suspending her for at least six months without pay, effective today. [8NewsNow; RJ]
  • Lawsuit filed against Las Vegas little league after girl breaks leg. [RJ]
  • Here’s more about the decedent in the lawsuit against Javier’s. [Page Six]
  • Free speech debate intensifies as local workers face consequences for public comments (featuring the legal insights of Dominic Gentile). [KTNV]
  • Nevada’s election system stayed up during massive statewide cyberattack. Here’s why. [TNI]
  • Las Vegas is having a “fabulous” 5-day sale in hopes of boosting visitation, foot traffic. [Fox5Vegas]
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September 23, 2025 10:11 am

Axiomaticus Firstivus Maximus

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September 23, 2025 12:12 pm
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at least you’re somewhat clever about it

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September 23, 2025 10:19 am

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September 23, 2025 10:48 am

Boyd is just 25 years old, yet it already has multiple alumni convicted of or charged with serious crimes—like murder and pedophilia. (Telles, Castro, and Woodrum.) How many other law schools, especially so young, can claim such a troubling record among their alumni?

In Las Vegas, most disgraced attorneys tend to get caught up in fraud, scams, or trafficking—like Guymon, Beasley, Graham, Harris, Winkler, Levinson, Amesbury, and Brian Jones (none of whom are Boyd grads). But Boyd grads take misconduct to a far more disturbing level—crossing the line into violent crimes and child exploitation.

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September 23, 2025 11:01 am
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Boyd
My impression is that Boyd is working hard to move up in the law school rankings. The rankings are largely political in that academia is less important than social factors. A factor in the rankings is how many of those admitted graduate. In Boyd’s case, I think that if you are admitted you are pretty much guaranteed to graduate.

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September 23, 2025 11:11 am
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From posts here, some of Telles’ targets almost didn’t graduate. So maybe they should rethink their graduation strategies. There was also an anonymous Above the Law article a few years back about a Boyd alum who died by suicide. I don’t fully recall it though.

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September 23, 2025 11:39 am
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Cherry-picking a small number of individuals to generalize/criticize a law school with thousands of graduates over a 25-year period is lazy, ignorant, and irresponsible.

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September 23, 2025 11:46 am
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Not a UNLV grad, and I agree. This is cheap, stupid and lazy.

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September 23, 2025 11:47 am
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The issue isn’t whether all Boyd grads are violent criminals. The issue is whether Boyd turns a blind eye to its students’ bad behavior.

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September 23, 2025 5:39 pm
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Complete bullshit.

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September 23, 2025 6:07 pm
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There’s no shame in needing medication and taking it.

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September 23, 2025 11:46 am
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Ted Bundy attended my law school. Boyd is certainly not alone.

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September 23, 2025 12:13 pm
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U of U! U of U!

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September 23, 2025 12:24 pm
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That’s because Bundy was waitlisted at BYU.

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September 24, 2025 2:47 pm
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To be fair, BYU’s sociopath quota fills up pretty quickly. They probably didn’t have an extra slot for Bundy.

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September 24, 2025 4:03 pm
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sociopaths with better grades already got in

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September 23, 2025 5:30 pm
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But Bundy didn’t graduate.

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September 23, 2025 1:04 pm
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The top 20 students at any ABA Accredited law school are likely as bright and amazing as the top 20 students at any other law school. It is the bottom 20 students that weigh down a school’s reputation (and rankings).

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September 23, 2025 1:14 pm
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Thank you. I went to Boyd and have done very well in my career.

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September 23, 2025 1:46 pm
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So did Telles, Castro, and Woodrum

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September 23, 2025 3:00 pm
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That’s a bit off topic, but okay. I went to Boyd, and most of the people who graduated in the top of my class are now personal injury lawyers—billboard types—chasing $100 million cases that actually pay out but not quite getting there. Being a good lawyer doesn’t have anything to do with law school grades, and law school grades definitely don’t guarantee ethical behavior. Law school grades don’t really have much to do with anything.

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September 23, 2025 5:47 pm
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Law school grades have quite a bit to do with who lands at big firms at the beginning of their careers. After that, not so much.

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September 23, 2025 5:38 pm
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F off with your Boyd hate. Boyd grads, particularly Class of 13, will continue to kick your ass in court.

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September 23, 2025 10:54 am

Lets give a big cheer for the judicial 2020 class of clowns that we will undoubtedly reelect in 2026!

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September 23, 2025 11:01 am
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You tend to lose cases, don’t you?

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September 23, 2025 2:04 pm
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Totally agree – 80 percent completely suck. That’s being generous.

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September 23, 2025 5:47 pm
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I would be interested in who you think are the 20% who were passable from that class.

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September 23, 2025 7:42 pm
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Then maybe you should run.

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September 23, 2025 5:39 pm
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Sing it with me,
Yo Ho, Erika Ballou has got to go!

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September 23, 2025 11:10 am

Does the suspension now go to the Nevada Supreme Court, and if so, will they all have to recuse themselves?

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September 23, 2025 11:26 am

Small update to the vexatious litigant discussion last week – a judge just issued an OSC why a pro se party shouldn’t be deemed a vexatious litigant, citing Jordan v State ex rel Dept of Motor Vehicles.

Not a win yet, but good to see judges taking the issue seriously.

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September 23, 2025 11:54 am

Awful little league injury but I lean heavily toward assumption of risk in these kinds of cases. The timorous may stay at home.

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September 23, 2025 12:12 pm
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Yeah but the kid wasn’t injured in the normal course of a game (which would be assumption of the risk). Allegation is the wrong base was used – it’s supposed to break away on impact (to prevent this kind of injury).

I mean, maybe a fixed base keeps someone from stealing 2nd, so that’s a defense.

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September 24, 2025 10:44 am
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I would say getting injured sliding into base is in the normal course of a game. You’re just saying the league was negligent in how it ran the game. You could make this argument in almost any case – “I didn’t assume the risk that you would inadequately coach the pitcher and then he hit me with a pitch”; “I didn’t assume the risk that you would allow a kid who was too big play in the league and he ran into me and hurt me”; etc.

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September 24, 2025 2:51 pm
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I tend to agree. Also is the Little League not an occupier of the premises? I’m sure they pay a nominal fee to the public entity to lease the space. That would make them immune under NRS 41.510, no?

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September 23, 2025 12:18 pm

Re the Javier’s case: this is a textbook example of how hotel and security staff can make what might be a defensible case into an indefensible one that focuses on their bad behavior instead of what could easily turn out to be an otherwise defensible causation issue.

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September 23, 2025 2:11 pm
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and that is why we are employed and will be for the duration…..

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September 23, 2025 4:33 pm

Interesting pair of notes in the SBN’s meeting digest. The Bar President went to a conference on your nickel and learned all about how to Leverag[e] AI to expand pro bono legal services.

Meanwhile, OBC is reporting a substantial increase in grievances written by AI slop.

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September 23, 2025 5:42 pm
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I was already fed up with my bar dues (and taxes) subsidizing the LACSN Empire a long time ago.

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September 23, 2025 6:19 pm
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citation?

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September 23, 2025 9:13 pm
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The meeting digest for the September 3-4 BoG meeting. Don’t know if it’s on the website anywhere, but they emailed it out today.

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September 24, 2025 10:46 am
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Bar dues have not changed in 20 years

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September 24, 2025 8:55 am
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No one has ever accused Mayweather of being smart

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September 24, 2025 10:05 am
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From the sound of it I hope the guy got a good retainer up front.