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- There is a civil bench-bar meeting today. [eighthjdcourt blog]
- Wynn is bringing in Gibson Dunn to investigate the allegations against Steve Wynn. [CNN Money]
- There are a lot of people who don’t want to be annexed by the City of Las Vegas. [Las Vegas Sun]
Is anybody else having a hard time getting onto the bar website?
PSA reminder: Grace period for Bar and CLE dues is expiring soon. Grumble all you want, but don't pay a nickel more to the audit-wanting, nest-feathering, kingdom-building, annual vacation-taking, CLE-price-increasing, mandatory-membershipping SOBs than is absolutely necessary.
BEWARE, this year there's a penalty trap for the unwary. The Nevada Bar is once more currying 'goodwill' from compulsory members. According to an email received from the NV CLE Board, there's a $250 late fee imposed on NV CLE Board payments made after Feb. 15th.
Bar fees, on the other hand, don't incur a late penalty until March 2nd. You can separately pay the CLE Board its $40 now before Feb. 15th and avoid the $250 late charge or you can go ahead and pay your bar dues and CLE fees totaling $490 now instead of the end of February. (The CLE Board fees aren't broken out on the fee statement. There's just a total of $490 shown).
What a racket.
Just to make sure, the $490 includes both, right?
Yes, the $490 includes both ($450 dues + $40 CLE fee). To make sure since I don't trust the state bar, I emailed membership services to verify since the fee statement does not disclose the CLE Board fee as a separate line item. It was confirmed.
Supremes moving quickly on the Review-Journal/Hartfield/Scotti case it appears. Answer to writ petition was ordered and is due tomorrow.
While I appreciate the Nevada Supreme Court moving quickly on this Writ Petition as a matter of public interest, they are continuing to sit on a decision on a different case which my firm is in in which a crucial deadline passed 30 days ago without a decision. They could have entered a stay and decided this Writ with exactly the same lack of urgency that they grant to every other writ petition.
I admit that this is a freshman question, but can you add exhibits and do declarations on an appeal if they are relevant to the issues of appeal?
No – not on an appeal. You might be able to get away with it on a writ. For an appeal if you need to add to the record you can look at NRAP 10 (for correcting the existing record) or ask for a remand so the district court can consider the new factual matters (good luck – it doesn't happen often).
No. Cannot introduce anything that you didn't raise below.
5:38 PM–Disagree that "you can not introduce anything you didn't raise below." My understanding is that the Nevada Supreme Court is unique in that you can raise matters not raised below because the court is scouring the entire proceeding and looking at it anew as if it had been raised and should have been raised. I experienced that in a case actually that I was arguing where something was raised for the first time on appeal that had not been raised below and the Court ran with that argument even though not raised at all below at the trial court.
Thank you for your comments. They help! Happy Valentine's Day!
Undisputed new facts may be introduced on appeal in order to demonstrate mootness