Pivot Step

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  • @VitalVegas suggests some members of the local legal community may be involved in a bookie scandal. [See also Federal subpoena to Resorts World preceded Sibella’s departure. [Nevada Current])
  • Lombardo campaign pivots legal defense fund to ethics case. [TNI]
  • Nevada leads nation in home foreclosures, report says. [RJ]
  • LIMA diversion program helps those seeking treatment. [RJ]
  • CCSD seeks to dismiss union’s anti-SLAPP lawsuit following injunction. [KTNV]
  • DA plans to charge teen as adult in cyclist’s death. [8NewsNow]
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September 19, 2023 5:11 pm

FIRST! WOOHOO!!

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September 19, 2023 5:13 pm

I find it funny that the article is entitled "District attorney plans to charge Las Vegas teen as an adult in apparent intentional hit-and-run". Apparent? It's literally on video.

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September 19, 2023 9:04 pm
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Better than the first reporting, which only called it a Bicycle Accident

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September 19, 2023 10:52 pm
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None dare call it premeditated murder.

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September 20, 2023 3:36 pm
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10:13 the story doesn't exactly fit the PC narrative, hence the language

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September 20, 2023 5:14 pm
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Come on yall. This is a law blog. Not everything is fodder for your culture war. Papers have to caveat the facts to avoid getting sued for defamation. That's journalism 101, it's "alleged," "apparent," or something similar to avoid the inevitable lawsuit when someone is acquitted.

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September 20, 2023 5:50 pm
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10:14 is correct. I live less than a mile from the scene of the homicide. I come down Tenaya and drove upon the scene probably 20 minutes after it happened (they closed Tenaya and were diverting traffic already). I bike Tenaya and the bike path than abuts right there and now this area. This one hits close to home for me. But I understand the qualifier in the headline.

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September 19, 2023 5:26 pm

CCSD filed the lawsuit and CCEA filed the anti-slapp motion to dismiss not the other way around

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September 19, 2023 6:02 pm
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CCSD usually hires sub-par counsel to represent them. CCEA is not much better. Let's see where the chips fall. Both garbage organizations.

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September 19, 2023 7:01 pm
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CCSD was represented by Greenberg Traurig for years….just saying. Not that I disagree with your comment.

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September 19, 2023 5:47 pm

I remember all those weird Sibella stories last year. Never surprised when there's fire after that kind of smoke.

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September 19, 2023 6:06 pm
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The fire started at MGM several years ago. Resorts World is just collateral damage. Powerful people protect powerful people in this town.

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September 19, 2023 6:18 pm
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Just this town?

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September 19, 2023 6:36 pm
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See, just like the old days. Casino managers scheme with shady players using shady taco stand owner's son for cover and misdirection.
Better to have left the Mafia run the strip. No crime (other than skimming and a few desert burials), controlled prostitution, no porn advertising on the strip.

As an aside, is there any difference between skimming and aggressive taxation?

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September 19, 2023 9:44 pm
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There is no secret in the VitalVegas/John L. Smith/Nevada Current articles who the members of the legal community who were implicated are.

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September 19, 2023 11:45 pm
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Enlighten us with no street contacts. Who do tell?

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September 20, 2023 2:05 am
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From the link above
Vital Vegas
@VitalVegas
Vegas-related. This scandal involves a lot more than the removal of a casino president. Eyes are also on Gaming Control Board member George Assad and attorney David Chesnoff, among others.

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September 20, 2023 9:35 pm
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@7:05 – sounds like the campaign donation machine is about to kick into overdrive.

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September 19, 2023 7:15 pm

NV Bar website is down.

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September 19, 2023 8:54 pm
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Odd

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September 19, 2023 11:44 pm
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odd indeed

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September 19, 2023 11:45 pm
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wow that is so very odd, let's discuss

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September 20, 2023 12:53 am
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That's because the NSA and FBI are watching you.

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September 20, 2023 2:04 am
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Works on my phone but not on any desktop browsers