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- Here’s more on the pot trial to be held at the Convention Center. [RJ]
- UNLV is among 180 universities joining litigation over the Trump administrations rule barring foreign studentts from online only classes this fall. [TNI]
- The special legislative session continues today after a positive COVID-19 test over the weekend. [Fox5Vegas]
Watch this Special Leg Session very closely. We are about to get a huge increase in taxes. Mark my words.
A one-time income tax on high earners would be much better than decimating the education budget, but I doubt they go that route.
"one time tax" Yeah, right, we know how those "one time taxes" go, they NEVER go away. Don't kid yourself.
An income tax would require a constitutional amendment, so yeah, I doubt they go that route too.
This is 9:58 – huh didn't know that. Even more unlikely than I thought.
With $1.2 Billion shortfall, this equals about $400 per Nevada resident. anyone want to pass the hat?
If San Bernardino County can raise $65 million which it gave to its schools from merely selling lottery tickets, Nevada should do this too. Nevada Constitution should not be allowed to prevent such, it needs to be amended.
916am here.
Zero chance that we get a Lottery. There is no telling what Gov. Sisolak promised the casinos in order to get them to shutdown without a word. But, taxes are on the horizon.
At least we have a NFL stadium
What a fantastic investment that looks like now! Thanks so much for foisting that cost on taxpayers without a vote, we sure had nowhere else to put that money.. /s
Over/under on the amount of a season we get this year? 3 games is my guess.
Yes, plus we get all those great Raider fans.
FEMA Camp here we come.
That's on Sissolack too, remember those room taxes that were going to pay for it? That's not happening now, is it?
Does anyone else find this whole stadium situation to be eerily similar to Ben Wyatt's Ice Town debacle..?
This would appear to be literally the worst conceivable scenario that could have resulted from the whole stadium proposition.
@2:25 – Love it.
"Stadium scheme costs Governor meme his revenue dream"
The LVRJ video on the weed trial is legendarily Las Vegas. What looks like a folding table with an 8th JDC tablecloth pulled over it for the judge. The carpet, oh the carpet. A fleet of cheap tables arranged bar exam style. And the end: "Cut to fleet of white lawyers walking outside while masked up."
2020 continues to give.
Lawyers walking outside in slow motion, no less.
I love Betsy so much. How many judges would push so hard and creatively to give these parties their day in court?
Yes, Betsy is the best, not.
EJDC should be required to track and disclose the number of Covid cases coming out of this trial.
Anything new on the post last week about the PDs and DAs who tested positive last week?
Everyone in the entire world tested positive today. You are now free to move on with the rest of your life.
Glad you are so flip about the virus. The person was asking out of concern for others.
2:00: The tests are as accurate as a coin flip, so just save the money and have each attorney flip a coin at the end of the trial, and log the heads as Covid and tails as not Covid.
Dear Clerk's Office– it does not matter how days in a row you continue to send me an email indicating that you have not received filing fees from me and then list cases filed by other firms, and have been told those entries are from other firms, my answer has not changed. Yet you continue to resend the same email day after day after day knowing that it is wrong.
Phew! Glad I'm not the only one!
10:34 AM-The Clerk's Office has my name associated with another attorney. The bar number belongs to another attorney. How do I fix this nonsense? Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions??
@11:37. No you are not the only one. I've had to deal with demands for filing fees for several other law offices on cases we've never touched.
In the cases that are for my office, we have receipts, fortunately, that show we paid the fees they are claiming we owe.
In fact, in one case, we were double billed and are demanding a refund. That so far has gotten them to shut up about it. Not that they have given us the refund.
It looks like they are sending bills to offices if the name of the attorney was ever in any way associated with the office. I've gotten notices for three of counsels's own law firms and for a law firm headed by a former associate.
10:34, welcome to the land of inefficient, non-responsive bureaucracies.
So many agencies(and more so with government agencies) automatically, and at certain intervals, keep generating "compliance requested" type of communications, even when they are rendered moot.
And no matter what mechanism you use to remind them that the matter is resolved or no longer relevant, the reminder communications still come.
This was bad enough when it was via letter, but at least back then sometimes there was a live individual you could contact to stop the situation. But now that the remote reminders occur via email or other electronic means, they never stop.
So, 10:34, these reminders are part of your life, and will remain so even if you live to be 98. So, perhaps you will learn to adjust to and tolerate their familiarity–similar to how we accept and tolerate a relative who periodically wants to grub money or favors from us.
Governor Newsom just ordered several categories of businesses (bars, restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, worship services, malls, non-essential offices, etc.) to cease indoor operations in counties representing 80 percent of California's population. How long until Governor Sisolak follows suit for Nevada?
48 hours.
I'll take the under on that.
1:50– what is disturbing about all this is that the return to earlier "shut down" phases seems to be based on us not seeing a decrease of confirmed cases. Since the trajectory(based on far greater access to testing and other developments)is that we will likely see a continued uptick in cases, as opposed to a decrease, we are heading down a slippery slope of a very elongated societal shut down, which can lead to a parade of horrors no one imagined.
My view on the covid crisis, in general, has been somewhere in the middle, but closer to the tread lightly, elongated shut down, approach rather than an aggressive re-opening approach.
I thought we needed to take the slow, careful approach we took the first couple months(which, admittedly came at a great price), and that this is not really just some enhanced flu, as the aggressive re-opening contingency would have us believe.
But, like millions of others, I am conflicted since if society follows in the direction of my personal views, I recognize how critical infrastructures will collapse.
Yes, it is a serious illness–much more serious than the aggressive re-opening contingency would have us believe.
But it is not remotely the bubonic plague, although those recommended more of a continued "shut down" approach would have us believe.
I realize emotions run extremely high on this and am expecting everyone to tell me I am a moron, as opposed to anyone agreeing with any of my points.
And that's fine, but hopefully after posters dismiss me as a buffoon, some of them can suggest some interesting observations, which are simply not the re-heated talking points of the "shut down" or the "re-opening" contingency.
Peace and love. Be safe.
Definitely not a moron – I think there are more of us conflicted about this than you think, but we're the quiet ones who aren't spouting off about how masks infringe our constitutional rights..
I think we reopened too soon, and too abruptly. The restaurants and bars were given about 24 hours notice on the ability to reopen, so of course there weren't systems in place to the extent there should have been. It was a mad scramble. Couple that with the reckless people who refuse to wear masks, and the "customer is always right" mentality of business, and you have a problem waiting to happen. Add that to the misinformation from the media and no one quite knows how to act or who to trust right now.
I want life to go back to normal as much as anyone – I miss happy hour, concerts, and actually being able to make plans to do anything. I also desperately don't want to catch Covid, as I am the vulnerable blood type and have health conditions. It's a strange time to be alive.
One could argue hat businesses had approximately 60+ days to come up with systems to reopen. NRS 207.200 provides in part:
2. A sufficient warning against trespassing, within the meaning of this section, is given by any of the following methods:
. . .
(e) By the owner or occupant of the land or building making an oral or written demand to any guest to vacate the land or building.
How 'bout this: You are not wearing a mask. Put on a mask immediately or vacate my property. If you don't put on mask and don't vacate you are guilty of misdemeanor and can be held liable for damages for trespass.
Call the coppers, and/or make a citizens arrest and file suit for damages. Problem solved.
Every single prediction of the so-called experts proved wrong. We shut down the world for a pathogen that allegedly causes a scary but not particularly deadly disease. This thing is so fake on every level, I can hardly breath (with or without my mask). Fake causative relationship, fake tests, fake case reporting (everything is covid), fake hysteria.
Real men and women are suffering for no good reason. Trump the germaphobe failed us.
Trump's mistake was opening the door to Fauci and his voo-doo science. That started the whole smoke and mirrors campaign. Before we knew it, everyone in power started using the virus to further their political agenda. There are so many agendas out there now that I've lost track of who is pushing for what. In the meantime, we (the citizens of this world) are having our otherwise normal and productive lives beat down like a pinata, tethered to our homes. This is pathetic and it needs to stop.
Trump is correct that more testing leads to more positive tests, but that is only part of the equation. Look at the percentage of people testing positive. That is the concerning part.
For the people claiming it is fake. You are fucking idiots. You prove you can’t fix stupid or crazy.
You can't fix gullible, either. Being a hate mongering mouthpiece for the propaganda left is proving to be more destructive than the virus itself.
When you refer to hate mongering mouthpiece, what do you mean exactly? Saying Covid is real? Saying people should wear a mask? In all seriousness I am wondering what offends you about the 9:25 post. I think they make a valid point about testing. I get it is an anonymous blog, so a real debate or understanding of someone’s views probably can’t happen, but I am wondering if hat was so hateful about the post you replied too.
I've fucking had it with this pandemic. Fuck Trump's incompetence. And fuck you to everyone who won't wear a mask or social distance. We're the laughing stock of the globe.
Just say no to CNN and MSNBC…
3:20: Stop watching the news. It rots your brain. Cursing me for failing to wear a silly face diaper is just one symptom.
Maybe masks work. Maybe they don't. My guess is very few lawyers have the skill set to know. Someone who is willing to risk others' lives by refusing to wear a mask and social distance, when they do not know these measures don't help, is a sociopath.
I've had it with this pandemic, too. I miss going to strip clubs. I miss making out with some of the hottest women in Vegas.
6:03, I cry for you. I cry for me. I cry for the women. We shall overcome. Someday. Deep in my heart, I do believe. We shall overcome.
Still, a pesky 99.2% survival rate for those under 65 with no pre existing conditions.
But lets destroy the entire US economy, cuz, ya know, "Orange Man Bad"
Infection Fatality Rate best estimate as of July 2020 is 0.0065.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
New Zealand got the virus under control by shutting down for 2 full incubation periods. Amazing what real leadership can do for a country. I echo 3:20's sentiments. This is a disaster.
did they do a real shut down or this half measured one that the governors did?
New Zealand doesn't play around. Watch Nothing to Declare on YouTube for more proof the Kiwis are badass.
New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, South Korea. All put the USA to shame. We THINK we're so great. (Cue up Greenwood "God Bless the USA." Cue up chant "USA! USA! USA!") The nation of Faux Newz is the laughing stock of the world! If I had the money, I'd move. This nation is a joke! And the real source of it: Lack of education. To predicate educational funding on your zip code is ridiculous, but that's what a certain political party currently occupying the White House wants.
How so?
5:52pm, you can add Japan and Vietnam to the list as well…
Hi- can anyone provide me with any insight on the following new case:
(curious to know (for a friend and/or many) that the counsel has attempted to file a preliminary injunction.
Miller S Tavern LLC; GMI Inc.; Gomil Inc.; Molly S Cheyenne LLC; Molly S Deer Springs LLC; Molly S Fort Apache LLC; Molly S Tenaya; RMRM Inc.; RMTwo Inc.; Silvereast LLC; Northshore Entertainment Group LLC; Sea Breeze Entertainment Group LLC; Windwill Entertainment Group LLC; Raising The Kilt; Champions Tavern LLC; Wedgies Sports Bar LLC-Pioneer Blvd.; Aronsohn Inc.; Town Lounge LLC; Town Lounge Henderson LLC; Town Lounge Grand Bazaar LLC; Bob Kingston Productions Inc.; Shucks II LLC; Shucks III LLC; Edge of Town LLC; Brimstone LLC; Starr & Son LLC; Starr Gaming LLC; KSR Tavern LLC; KSRD Tavern LLC; Intercapital Development Inc.; Creative Nightlife Concepts LLC; WFTLV01 LLC; WFTLV02 LLC; WFTLV04 LLC; WFTLV05 LLC; WFTLV06 LLC; Bogeys LLC;
v.
State of Nevada; Stephen F. Sisolak; Barbara K. Cegavske; Scott W. Anderson
7/12/2020 A-20-817872-C Escobar Civil.
Here is my insight. If it is assigned to Escobar, she will do nothing. This case is way over her head. I expect Dennis Kenndy to spend the dough to peremptorily challenge her.