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- Judge approves payday loan petition; strikes down broader version. [TNI]
- ACLU of Nevada threatens lawsuits over non-compliance with in-jail voting law. [Nevada Current]
- Telles is back in court today. [RJ]
- Trash, cattle overwhelming two national monuments near Las Vegas, lawsuit says. [RJ]
- New FBI report reveals Nevada ranks among top 3 for cybercrime. [News3LV]
- Pajama appearances are out–impressive stats are in at district court. [8thjdcourt blog]
Devil’s advocate re: “pajama appearances” – sometimes it is an accommodation for the party in question. In guardianship, people appearing in a hospital gown is not a rare occurrence. Just a pet peeve of mine related to how judges trivialize what remote appearances represent in terms of access.
I’m surprised only 57 criminal jury trials.
I hear two perspectives on this. One is that prosecutors have lost the institutional knowledge to try cases given the high turnover. The other is that prosecutors don’t see the value in trying cases when the sentencing judge metes out the same penalty for a guilty verdict as a plea bargain.
“The start of calendar is not the time to figure out Zoom, do it in advance.” Judge Tara Clark Newberry cautioned attorneys. “Witnesses need to be seen,” she added. “No more pajama appearances with the camera off.”
Is that a shot at Judge Escobar and Judge Israel who continued to appear remotely while requiring attorneys to actually be in their courtrooms?
There’s a white shirt and a tie in my home office to put on over my t-shirt. So long as I don’t need to stand up during the hearing, I’m cool. There is no accounting for witnesses or clients. Years ago I once had to send an assistant to Target or something to buy the client something acceptable for court as opposed to whatever getup he wore to my office that morning.
“We were a very busy court last year.” The presiding Civil Division judge ticked down a number of very impressive stats that show the court has been getting things done, including catching up on the backlog resulting from the pandemic.
-390 trials in 2023
-57 criminal jury trials
-67 civil jury trials
-92 civil bench trials
-174 default prove-up bench trials
-400 settlement conference resolving cases including 118 criminal settlement conferences
-310 evidentiary hearings
Impressive? Are you kidding? There are 32 departments. That is 539 trial between civil and criminal or 1.5 trials a month per department. No offense. That is not impressive when you stack 16 cases per trial stack.
A lot of this, I think, is litigants not wanting to go to trial. You can have a huge stack with not a single case reporting ready.
I remember when I clerked, my judge wanted a trial every week if they could.
The “390 trials” appears to count the “174 default prove-up bench trials” which is kind of silly to think that a prove-up hearing counts as a “trial”. When you remove those, you get 6.75 trials per department on average. Not impressive at all.
The commenter who said 390 all-in (including default judgment prove-ups) was right. That is 216 actual trials between 32 departments. That is 6.75 TRIALS PER DEPARTMENT PER YEAR. That is 1 trial every 2 months. That is pathetic.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/las-vegas-police-tired-of-scraping-people-up-off-the-streets-sheriff-says-3023127
Yeah . . . .red light cameras.
“How about NO!”
Dr. Evil. How about NO!
I’m the opposite. Mandate only fully self-driving vehicles on the roads by 2030. Save the country about a half-trillion a year in economic impact and 40K lives annually. Retire all sides of the unvirtuous triangle (lien-based treatment docs, billboard PI attorneys, insurance companies).
My guess is that the UAW, the insurance industry and every other American in the US would disagree with you.
Oh, and the globalists and their population reduction agenda would also likely oppose this.
@1:39p – You’d have to add ‘one-payer medical insurance’ for that as well.
Anyone else having an issue with the Justice Court Partner portal having been down for the last 2 days?
Does anyone have any actual personal experience getting out of a timeshare? These “services” are garbage, cost a lot of money up front and get no actual results.
Now elderly client bought timeshare in the early-2000s in Indian Wells for the tennis tournament and were never able to actually book it and quit attending the tournament. 15 years later and they are finally trying foreclose and assess. Paying is not a problem, they just want it over.
They have 2 other couples (family related) that they travel with that would also be interested in getting out of it.
I have been able to liberate a couple of people with a letter and threats. I would offer to give it to you, but it’s been at least 10 years. These companies are owned and run by cons and cowards.
Most likely, you would need to go back and show where some kind of misrepresentation was made at the time of sale. That might be pretty tough here after all these years due to SOL, laches, etc. There may be other grounds of which I am unaware.
Sure. Whenever a client comes to me during their 5 day rescission period, I successfully get them out of their timeshare. On the other hand I do have a number of consultations in which I save people money by talking them out of harebrained schemes they have heard might get them out of their timeshare.
Timeshare–The best time to get out of a timeshare is the grace period in the contract. I have gotten family members and relatives out. You have to follow the requirements of the contract which require service via mail/personal service. I usually do every method–fax, email, mail and registered mail. Even if close or right outside it usually works. Getting out of an existing time share is not so easy. Most of those timeshare companies simply try to negotiate out of the timeshare and it can require the holder/owner to pay to get out.