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- Doug Smith is retiring April 12. The retirement will make him eligible to start receiving funds he received from his 23 years of public service before he was a district court judge.. Love him or hate him, Judge Smith has been in a lot of headlines over the last few years. [eighthjdcourt blog]
- Some marijuana businesses are suing the state over how licenses were issued. [TNI]
- March Madness kicks off two of the least productive business days of the year. Are you watching while you work?
- From a press release
The electronic filing system for the Nevada Appellate Courts has been enhanced to allow documents to be efiled in cases pending in the Nevada Court of Appeals.
Additionally, regardless of whether a document is efiled in the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, the electronic filing system now directs the parties to select a document category and document type when a document is filed.
Any questions regarding the filing of a document through the electronic filing system may be directed to the Clerk’s Office at (775) 684-1600.
A single case lookup combines the two appellate courts and can be found at http://nvcourts.gov/supreme. The Appellate Court Electronic Filing system can be accessed at https://efile.nvsupremecourt.
us/login.jsp.
Have any of you received an objection that your discovery request is not proportional to the needs of the case? Is that going to be the new parlor game for the bar? Looks like it will be a bit of a nightmare until everyone figures this out.
Not yet. I expect those with the evidence will use it generously to keep it from those without it. Same old
This is not a trick, but the new standard for discovery. It follows the Federal standard that has been in place for some time. So you have plenty of guidance as to what this is and how this will apply.
It will be roundly abused until the new DC starts slapping people down, regardless of what Federal practice has been. That's how this always goes. Standard BS.
@11:26 of course there is plenty of guidance. Of course it is the new standard. That doesn't mean that folks won't knee-jerk use it as an objection without much thought and without looking at the "guidance".
This is a stylistic change more than a substantive one. The old rules had a proportionality requirement codified at NRCP 26(g)(2)(C). This just brings the language in line with the federal rules, puts it up front, and makes the proportionality requirement clearer.
It sounds like a most welcome objection to me, particularly in the Family Law field.
Sometimes there are relatively simple cases, with very limited issues, and parties submit nonsensical boiler plate discovery–asking for every $50. expenditure of the last decade, every power or utility bill for the last decade,as well as demands for a lot of documents which their client is co-listed on and can easily access the info. and documents by themselves–joint accounts, joints investments, joint homes, joint cars, etc.
The Bar just sent out an email re: nominations for BOG. There are 4 more seats in Clark County up for re-election or open. Who are the incumbents? It was very satisfying to see 3/4 incumbents lose last time, in large part thanks to the community that congregates in the comments of this blog. We need to continue to put in people like Andrew Craner. The people at the helm have not been advocating for our interests. We need some BoG that will prevent the kind of dumb ideas that people in the BoG bubble have been pushing or enabling. We need a BoG that will provide oversight to OBC, will stop annual out state meetings, etc. etc. etc.
Hallelujah!
If you give me a plan of how you intend to go about a "Cleansing of the Temple" and expelling those who have turned the BoG into a listless Den of Thieves, you not only will have my vote but I will actively campaign. Nothing has changed in the last year so I will want to hear how you plan to tear down the mutual backscratch society.
2019 Board of Governors Nominations
The nomination period for the 2019 State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors election opens in one week. Nomination for the Board of Governors occurs by submitting a petition signed by at least five active members entitled to vote for the nominee. The nomination form may be downloaded from the state bar’s website.
Petitions must be submitted to the state bar’s office by mail at 3100 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89102 or by email to Gale Skala at gales@nvbar.org. Petitions must not be submitted earlier than March 28, 2019, nor later than April 12, 2019.
Nominees must be residents of Nevada and have their official address per SCR 79 in the respective districts.
In 2019, the following positions are open for election:
• District One (Clark County): four seats
• District Two (White Pine, Elko, Eureka, Churchill, Lander, Humboldt, Lyon, Lincoln, Douglas, Mineral, Nye, Esmeralda, Pershing and Storey Counties): one seat
• District Three (Carson City): one seat
• District Four (Washoe County): one seat
Questions regarding the election process may be directed to Gale Skala at (702) 317-1431 or gales@nvbar.org.
Awesome work State Bar! Your email asks me to apply for Committees of the State Bar of Nevada. So I looked at the "Lawyer Referral Committee" (which I guess used to be LRIS). Has the Committee members whose terms ended 2 years ago and left the Committee. Awesome work SBN! Keep it up!
Lawyer Referral Committee
The Lawyer Referral Committee, which includes nine members plus two liaisons from the Board of Governors, assists the public by providing a way in which a person may be referred to a qualified attorney. The committee also reviews, on an annual basis, grant applications for the state bar and Lawyer Referral Public Service Grants Program.
•Terms: three-year term, no term limit
•Staff Liaison: Robert Horne, rhorne@nvbar.org
•Board of Governors Liaison: Terry Coffing, tcoffing@maclaw.com
•Committee Officers: ◦Chair: Lance Hendron, term expires June 2019, lance@ghlawnv.com
◦Vice-Chair: Katherine Provost, term expires June 2018
•Committee Members: ◦Gerald Welt, term expires June 2018
◦M. Nelson Segel, term expires June 2018
◦Russell Christian, term expires June 2019
◦Melissa Ingleby, term expires June 2019
◦Jimmy Howard, term expires June 2017
◦Michael Aisen, term expires June 2019
◦Arun Gupta, term expires June 2019
Justice Court website down. Ugh.
Who are the favorites for the two positions in District Court?