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- Tracking more than $607,000 in campaign contributions from lawyers and legal groups. [TNI]
- Here are some of the bills that didn’t make it past the first deadline day. [TNI]
- Nevada’s top officials disagree on capital punishment. [RJ]
- More on the push to ban ornamental grass. [Las Vegas Sun]
- Here’s the latest on the Lisa Bloom/Steve Wynn case. [RJ]
According to Commissioner Jones, grass that is aesthetically pleasing and boosts the visual appeal of a neighborhood is "dumb"… Sorry Mr. Jones, but some people don't want to live in a town that looks like it is straight out of the set of "The Book of Eli".
I would genuinely like to see the roadway medians they are complaining about. Seriously? I don't think I've ever seen a median in Las Vegas with grass on it. They are either concrete islands, or they are rock landscaping. Maybe they are referring to greenscapes in front of housing monuments?
Howard Hughes Center (approximately Maryland Pkwy and Flamingo) has grass center medians. Very nice for joggers.
Capital Punishment is still being debated as a policy/morality issue, which might make some sense in states(like Texas, Florida, etc.) where it may still, relatively speaking, actually be implemented from time-to-time.
But in many states(ours arguably included) where after 14, 16 or more years after the sentence was pronounced it may still not have been implemented, while millions are being spent on both sides of the aisle.
That is why when you ask certain Assistant District Attorneys who are assigned to death penalty cases, they often indicate that even though they support capital punishment(for the most egregious cases) in theory, that as implemented, it might as well be eliminated based on how it progresses in actual practice.
This view is more likely expressed by those who are assigned to the appellate aspects, and perhaps not as much those who are assigned the actual District Court level prosecution of these cases.
I'm not suggesting that we can streamline something so critical as capital punishment cases(particularly considering the surprising percentage of people who were cleared by DNA and/or other techniques, years later–and these are not just isolated matters.
But cases approaching the two decade mark are a humongous drain on the system, and can be tortuous for the surviving family members, and also raise serious issues concerning the rights of the convicted(although many of the convicted are often voluntarily availing themselves of this grossly elongated process. Very few have actually demanded to halt the appellate process for implementation of sentence.
Granted, some cases, considering the glut of the system, may justify 14 or 16 years of proceedings. We can't leave any stone unturned, and if a mistake is made, nothing can then be reversed and the horrible prospect of wrongly accused being executed does occur.
But, still, the shear length and expense of the process can be staggering beyond belief.
Also, why have it available if the in the most hideous and shocking of cases it will never be implemented.
I'm thinking of the brother-sister team that carved up those two young children in a Pahrump trailer park after the children's parents supposedly stiffed the murderers in a drug deal. Those two will never be executed. In fact, I think the sister's sentence may have been commuted to "life", but I may be wrong on that.
Suffice it to say, I think there are real sound arguments on both sides of the issue.
It was Mesquite, not Pahrump. And it was a casino parking lot, not a trailer park.
1:46–both are rural areas,and they lived in a trailer in a casino parking lot.
Point(to the extent the point needs to be made)is how horrific the crime is, not whether the trailer was in a casino parking lot or a trailer park.
1:46 either misses the point(which I doubt) or is someone who fixates on meaningless details to the exclusion of huge, critical issues–extolling form over substance to a startling degree.
Now, if the horrific murder of one child and mutilation or crippling of the other child, and whether or not it justifies the death penalty, is not the point, but the point is specifics about trailer parks, just say so.
Facts matter. Get 'em right.
1:46, 3:30-you persist in being somewhat petty, difficult and snappish IMO.
It says a lot that you passed up two opportunities to offer thoughts on critical policy underpinnings of capitol punishment, as well as the shockingly horrific murder of one child and maiming and crippling of another, to instead go around correcting people as to it being on a trailer park in the parking lot of a small rural casino, as opposed to being a trailer on a stand alone trailer park.
And even after 2:29 stood corrected and conceded the point, you again blew off the horrific crimes, and the larger policy discussions, and wanted to again take a jab about how you were right as to the technical classification of the parking lot the trailer was in. Okay, fine, it was a parking lot of a small, rural, neighborhood casino, not a stand alone trailer park.
You are right. You always must be right. And correcting people about very small tangential details that at this late date have zero to do with the horrors of what's being discussed(while totally ignoring the horrors) is startling.
10:13–I tend to support it in the most horrific of cases, but I understand that support needs to come with a high price.
Part of that price is years and years of appellate process to make certain no stone is unturned, etc.
This is not a process that lends itself to implementation of sentence within a year of two of the sentence being pronounced, with perhaps just one incident of appellate review.
The stakes are way too high for that, although it was often implemented that way up through the 1950's.
But, on the other hand, need it take 15 or more years and millions of dollars? I don't have the answer. Depends on the case. Again, the stakes are the highest of the high.
You mention Texas and Florida. Perhaps they are too streamlined. they don't mess around. Too high a likelihood of a serious error.
I wish you hadn't reminded me of the Maestas cases.
Our law firm took PPP money to put ads on the tv with flavor flav. Good use of tax money.
I'm guessing your firm was "Heavily Hit" by the Pandemic?
You can't legally use PPP money to pay for advertising. However, you can use PPP money to pay your payroll so it frees up your own money to pay for advertising… For full disclosure – we're a small 4 attorney, 8 staff firm and that's exactly what we're doing – upping our marketing to bring in more clients and using PPP to pay payroll. We transferred the PPP funds into our separate payroll account so we don't need to provide our operating account statement to the SBA/Bank when the forgiveness app time comes around to prove that it was 100% used for payroll.
You can use PPP money to pay for whatever the hell you want. The only caveat to that is that if you use it for non-allowable purposes or if you cut staffing, you might not get the loan forgiven. It's not illegal, it's just a loan at that point. If you got less than $150k in PPP, the forgiveness application is like a one-page document in which you solemnly swear you totally used the money for forgiveable purposes.
When you apply for the PPP the application is clear that you are applying for the funds for a specific intended use. If you applied knowing you were going to use it for 'whatever the hell you want' and then 'solemnly swear you totally used the money for forgivable purposes', that's what risks prison. I'm not one wanting to do something that, if audited, could put me in prison. That's just me though.
I am smitten with defense attorney Nelson. He gives great cross.
Anyone have experience recording quit claim deeds in CA? How do you get property descriptions with their new law that forbids putting that stuff online? Any pit falls I need to know about? I have read through all the required forms and disclosures and it seems straight forward.
I use https://www.usdeeds.com/ for getting estate planning deeds done where the properties are not in Nevada.
Yes, use a non lawyer to handle real estate transactions, Renato Ritter. A former car sales man. Good choice.
Renato isn't US Deeds. Renato is Quick Claim USA. And for an extra fee, he'll have an unlicensed paralegal handle your estate planning needs, because what's a little malpractice between unlicensed practitioners?
My apologies. They sound so similar, but please have Renato Ritter handle your estates. Solid choice.
USDeeds has contracts with attorneys in all states and title companies with access to title plants in all states. Docs are prepared by the office of an attorney licensed in the state where the deed will be recorded. This is not whomever Renato Ritter is.
I am still going with Renato Ritter. I want him to do my 3state planning in the back of my Chevy
Did Eglet, Lewis and Roca and Kummer Crawell take PPP loosens?
Lewis and Roca took $8,581,200, and Eglet took $654,700 in PPP loans. https://www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/law-firms-that-received-ppp-loans/
How lovely. They were giving g out campaign contributions. Investigation? Thank you posting the above newspaper article.
Those were just the first round of PPP loans published in July 2020. There were more loans after that. These are the larger loan gluttons we know in LV:
Amount Law Firm City State Jobs
$9,968,000.00 WOOD, SMITH, HENNING & BERMAN LLPLOS ANGELES CA
$9,217,700.00 ARMSTRONG TEASDALE LLP SAINT LOUIS MO 424
$8,581,200.00 LEWIS ROCA ROTHGERBER CHRISTIE LLP PHOENIX AZ 418
$7,805,200.00 LITCHFIELD CAVO LLP CHICAGO IL 473
$7,633,097.00 BOWMAN & BROOKE LLP MINNEAPOLIS MN 250
$5,104,400.00 BREMER WHYTE BROWN & O’MEARA LLP NEWPORT BEACHCA 300
$4,815,400.00 FENNEMORE CRAIG, P.C. PHOENIX AZ 283
$3,928,565.00 MCCORMICK, BARSTOW, SHEPPARD, WAYTE FRESNO CA 233
$3,840,707.00 SELMAN BREITMAN, LLP LOS ANGELES CA 172
$3,743,800.00 WEINBERG, WHEELER, HUDGINS, GUNN & DIAL ATLANTA GA 202
$2,756,851.00 LERNER & ROWE PC PHOENIX AZ 0 and
$1,010,160.00 GLEN J. LERNER, A PROFESSIONAL CORP. LAS VEGASNV 65
$2,532,170.00 RESNICK AND LOUIS PC SCOTTSDALEAZ 200
$1,012,325.00 KOLESAR & LEATHAM, CHTD. LAS VEGASNV 10
$1,009,400.00 J. BRUCE ALVERSON, LTD. LAS VEGASNV 92
Who cares. Should a firm not get the loan that is forgiven? Everyone is busy counting other people’s money. Try running your own business and making some money yourself instead of worrying what others got.
Most of those numbers are not LV specific though. Those are mostly regional firms with offices throughout the Southwest.
Unfucking believable
I want to know what politicians took money from money from the above assholes?
Delete the typo
4:09 is probably the same individual who, when faced with Aaron Ford's conflict of interest issues as a result of passing legislation to help his then partner, Eglet Prince, claimed that anyone who complained was just a jealous loser, practicing law out of his mother's basement. I guess we all had to pass that pesky MPRE just for fun, huh?
Look at the people who took Eglet aka government bailout money….Bonnie Bulla, Esther Rodriguez, Adam Ganz
Did you ever think a loan could be taken to cover payroll under the rules and you don’t have to be broke. Both are possible. This means you can make donations, advertise and do normal things.
Um, no big sur. You should not be making donations while taking PPP
One of the firms in my practice area took a six figure loan. They have about 10 attorneys. Everyone in my practice area has more work than we can handle. Because money is fungible, that loan, once forgiven, will represent a huge windfall to the owners of that firm. Crazy.
Want to know your firm's bank that gave it the ppp loan too? Go to ppprecipients.com, type in the state and the firm's name. Very interesting.
US Bank was handing them out like sex toys.
They must not have a rule in Minnesota that non-relevant evidence is inadmissible.
Marquis, Aurbach, Coffing took 1.2 million in PPP funds, then ran and lost two races with the bailout funds.
Wbere art though ppp money?
Heavy hitter. Awkafina Gina Bomgiovi was bragging about het PPP score like it was a big legal victory. Your head of your Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce
Fuck you, no pot lounges. You vote for this, you are out
Relax, 7:37. Have a joint.