Ryan Alexander and Richard Englemann represent a woman in a suit alleging Metro police violated civil rights of “countless” DUI suspects in Laughlin area. [RJ]
Officials look to enhance courthouse security. [RJ]
Opinion: To improve transparency, should the Legislature eat its own dogfood (i.e. open meeting law)? [TNI]
Youth ice hockey groups accuse VGK operator of pushing out independent teams. [8NewsNow]
For those of you without kids, here’s your friendly reminder that CCSD spring break may be the reason it is hard to get opposing counsel on the line.
For those of us without children – spring break is usually a somewhat calm week; clients are busy with their kids, lots of younger opposing counsel are busy with their kids at home, middle aged OC are on trips with the high school aged kids, and we get an uptick in calls for custody modifications and new divorces in the weeks afterwards…..
I figure this has to be a common issue (or at least something that has arisen before) though in ‘border towns’ where one of the jurisdictions has significantly more resources and people than the other though right? Bullhead, while not a major metropolis by any means has almost five times the population of laughlin if i remember correctly.
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March 11, 2024 12:28 pm
You mean having prosecutors, defense attorneys and civil practitioners riding in elevators with murderers may not be a great idea?
You were just standing around outside with the same people, and now they’ve been through a metal detector. I hate using once incident to change everything
DEOBRA REDDEN went through metal detector before he attacked Judge Holthus didn’t he?
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March 11, 2024 12:29 pm
Family Court update: Supreme Court ruled that “Family law proceedings are presumptively open” and any statute that automatically closes the proceedings without allowing for the exercise of judicial discretion and narrowly tailoring the sealing order is unconstitutional. So why is there a family court judge arguing that her very own divorce case should unilaterally be sealed with no public/press access, no judicial discretion, and no narrow tailoring. She just wants her own case to be 100% sealed. Is this a case of one law for the rest of us and one for her? Or is this a judge that cannot interpret supreme court caselaw? Which option should concern us the most? Do we worry more about a judge that holds herself above and separate from us mere mortals or do we worry more about (another) EJDC judge who cannot interpret and apply precedent? ONJ has the judge’s objection and the Falconi response posted for those interested in reading it.
OP here. I get that you think you can build the narrative that this is a non-issue because the family law bar doesn’t want anyone paying attention to this issue, much less knowing what they’re up to down there at Pecos, but public sentiment says otherwise. One of the busiest local legal pages on Facebook is the family court support page. People are sick of the family court cabal being able to operate in secret and the Supreme Court has clearly had enough of family court’s crap. The biggest tell that this is a major issue is the number of family law attorneys who are freaking out about media access. One attorney is outright refusing to represent her client anymore. She filed to withdraw from a case just a few weeks before trial, leaving her client in the lurch, over a media access request. This horse has legs whether you like it or not.
When the staff is engaged in UPL and the rules say attorneys have to supervise staff, does the attorney get persecuted by OBC when the UPL by her staff is exposed in open court?
For those of us without children – spring break is usually a somewhat calm week; clients are busy with their kids, lots of younger opposing counsel are busy with their kids at home, middle aged OC are on trips with the high school aged kids, and we get an uptick in calls for custody modifications and new divorces in the weeks afterwards…..
Don’t forget the best perk!!
No school traffic or busses slowing shit down.
Ryan raises very reasonable points in the litigation. I look forward to hearing how it plays out.
I figure this has to be a common issue (or at least something that has arisen before) though in ‘border towns’ where one of the jurisdictions has significantly more resources and people than the other though right? Bullhead, while not a major metropolis by any means has almost five times the population of laughlin if i remember correctly.
You mean having prosecutors, defense attorneys and civil practitioners riding in elevators with murderers may not be a great idea?
You were just standing around outside with the same people, and now they’ve been through a metal detector. I hate using once incident to change everything
DEOBRA REDDEN went through metal detector before he attacked Judge Holthus didn’t he?
Family Court update: Supreme Court ruled that “Family law proceedings are presumptively open” and any statute that automatically closes the proceedings without allowing for the exercise of judicial discretion and narrowly tailoring the sealing order is unconstitutional. So why is there a family court judge arguing that her very own divorce case should unilaterally be sealed with no public/press access, no judicial discretion, and no narrow tailoring. She just wants her own case to be 100% sealed. Is this a case of one law for the rest of us and one for her? Or is this a judge that cannot interpret supreme court caselaw? Which option should concern us the most? Do we worry more about a judge that holds herself above and separate from us mere mortals or do we worry more about (another) EJDC judge who cannot interpret and apply precedent? ONJ has the judge’s objection and the Falconi response posted for those interested in reading it.
I want to see the “Plaintiff’s” Objection and not just the response thereto.
The judge is the plaintiff and her objection is posted on ONJ.
It looks like Dawn Throne and Michelle Hauser are about to take a crash course on the Streisand Effect.
Secretariat cannot take any more whacks.
OP here. I get that you think you can build the narrative that this is a non-issue because the family law bar doesn’t want anyone paying attention to this issue, much less knowing what they’re up to down there at Pecos, but public sentiment says otherwise. One of the busiest local legal pages on Facebook is the family court support page. People are sick of the family court cabal being able to operate in secret and the Supreme Court has clearly had enough of family court’s crap. The biggest tell that this is a major issue is the number of family law attorneys who are freaking out about media access. One attorney is outright refusing to represent her client anymore. She filed to withdraw from a case just a few weeks before trial, leaving her client in the lurch, over a media access request. This horse has legs whether you like it or not.
Stop being a Karen, Karen.
When the staff is engaged in UPL and the rules say attorneys have to supervise staff, does the attorney get persecuted by OBC when the UPL by her staff is exposed in open court?
If you report it and can document it.
Hahahah I’m literally crying, it depends who they know at Obc, oh my poor children hahaha