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- It looks like MGM is settling the October 1 lawsuit for upwards of $800 million depending on the number of claimants who accept it. Eglet’s press conference is at 10:30. [RJ; 8NewsNow]
- Judge Jacqueline Bluth approved the “sweetheart plea deal” for billionaire Henry Nicholas. [RJ]
- Wisconsin is facing a second federal challenge to its mandatory bar association. [WisBar]
So my first thought this morning …. wait for it …. wait … SISOHACK!!!! hahahaha
Ok, I'm in the dark. What is going on with the constant and now annoying reference to "Sisohack"? Who, what, where.
Read some prior days' posts. Some goof is coming in and spouting off about LibTARDS and Sisohack. I'm a registered member of the GOP, the RNC, I voted for Trump, and I think the person's a goof.
Dear 10:22 – 10:03 here, I was goofing ON that person, to be clear I am not that person, now officially retiring goofing on the Sisohack poster
Keep complaining and laughing at the silent majority. We will continue making America great again.
Maybe you can all grow up and stop acting like children. Have differing opinions all you want – but talk about it constructively and with courtesy. Seriously – the name calling (from BOTH sides) – how old are you?
I don't see how the plaintiff's in the Wisconsin case will succeed. I agree that being a member of a state bar and paying dues only to have the state bar spend money promoting certain political positions that I disagree with, is a violation of my free speech rights making me pay for that political speech. I do not, though, disagree that there has to be some method to certify an attorney within a specific state to be licensed to practice in that specific state. There has to be some group appointed to regulate attorneys to avoid UPL and to have a central registrar of 'approved' (licensed) attorneys within the state. Maybe it's not the State Bar of Nevada, but it can't be a free-for-all. How would clients be sure that they're meeting with an actual attorney and not a person who read a few books and can repeat certain buzzwords to fool the potential client?
Read the complaint (link below). The Wisc. State Bar does not administer admissions or discipline. Admissions and CLE compliance are administered by the Wisc. Board of Bar Examiners. Discipline is administered by the Wisc. Office of Lawyer Regulation. Both of those are separate state agencies. The Wisc. State Bar is merely a trade association (according to the complaint). At least in that state, abolishing the Bar would not impact the things you are talking about.
https://www.wisbar.org/aboutus/overview/Documents/Litigation/SchuylerFileV.StateBarEtAl.pdf
@10:20a here – then the claims to abolish it make more sense. If they already have an entity governing them, then requiring licensed attorneys to pay a trade association does sound wasteful. Maybe Nevada could look at Wisconsin and setup a separate board of bar examiners and office of lawyer regulation – splitting into two, so we can skip paying for annual trips to ski resorts and Hawaii for the annual meeting of a group that seems to do bupkis.
https://twitter.com/McDonaldNV/status/1179530610349502464
Regardless of your political views, this is not acceptable. Frankly, it is scary. It only takes one zealous nutjob in a crowd like this to do something violent. Given the climate of the country, we need earlier secret service protection for candidates. No candidate should be put in this position again.
Also, what an embarrassment for Nevada.
Frankly, I am torn. First, it is a beautiful sight to see someone exercising their 1st amendment right to political speech. However, neither side wanted to try to quell the demonstration by trying to understand each other in a civilized way. Warren could have stopped to try to find common ground, and the crowd could have sought to engage her in a more productive way. The politics of this country have torn us apart as Americans, and that's what is truly sad to see…
I agree with 12:33. It's gut-wrenching to watch our country basically cannibalize itself. The scariest part is that apparently everyone is too terrified of the mob mentality to stand up and call out their own party members when they are being stupid. I wish people would realize what a dangerous situation this is.
There is this quaint old saying: E pluribis unum.
I'd sure like to see that make a comeback.
Because that was clearly a group of people who were interested in a productive and civilized conversation with Warren rather than a pod of trolls trying to harass her and post their harassment of her online, I too think that both sides were in the wrong here and am totally not disingenuously concern-trolling.
Causing a disturbance in an airport, surely that's a (federal) crime, no?
We here in Nevada really are the slack-jawed bohunks that the rest of the country thinks we are.
And check Michael J. McDonald's background. One would think that a major political party could select someone less odious as its party chair.
It's astounding to me that the state GOP is ok with him being their face.
I"m a registered republican and am so embarrassed by the party in this State. I wish there was an alternative.
Second in command is Michelle Fiore, another beauty
I love the GOP equating the Heller incident to the Warren incident. Samesies! A small group of people holding signs and quietly asking Heller if he's going take a policy position at a future vote vs. a small group of people chasing a presidential candidate through the airport shouting fucking nonsense at her. I, for one, see zero difference.
Sure, if the Heller group didn't have a permit then they probably violated the same permit requirement. I don't know if they did get a permit. But if you don't act like asshats then you don't draw attention to yourself and the fact that you might have broken a law that nobody really thinks of nowadays.
And all the people screaming first amendment! need to watch the Hare Krishna scenes in Airplane! again.
I left the GOP recently as well,,,, while I still think that overall the principles that should be governing the party are a more effective way of governance,, the local party keeping McDonald for so long and frankly embracing Fiore and the tea party wing finally just wore me out.
Right now, the Trump Machine is PROLIFIC at samesies. They can dig into the past find something, frame/spin it and within half a news cycle they've reframed the debate. They're quite talented really. If Trump went out onto the west lawn of the White House tonight, dropped his pants and jerked off in public, by 5 AM Eastern, his team would have some incident from Obama or a Clinton or AOC that was essentially equivalent.
Excellent call.
https://youtu.be/f4CizzE-zZo
Eglet for governor!
Eglet for judge!
Heaven help us. Wait until he has one of his famous melt downs on camera.
How common is billing inflation in insurance defense?
Every entry on every bill.
Depends. How common is it for the carrier to slash bills once they get them?
For all ID firms it is their business plan.
Dare I say as shocked as Captain Louis Renault was to find gambling going on in the cafe in Casablanca?
I recall my old firm would reference their copy and paste work as "value billing" in which they would probably take 10 minutes to do a set of RFA but charge an hour reasoning that if they were actually going from scratch it could take 2-3 hours. It was a wonderful way to somehow break the time space continuum and bill 30 hours in a 24 hour day.
Is no one going to talk about the fact that Bluth is former DA and approving the deal?
Don't worry she scrutinized it VERY closely.