Nevada’s Senators created a panel to help select candidates for federal judicial vacancies. This article says who makes up that panel. [RJ]
Here’s a case that now has a Nevada connection where the CEO of a translation company is being fined for contempt for bringing a suit here instead of in Delaware. [Bloomberg Big Law Business]
The potential buyer of the Huntridge Theatre credits Las Vegas City Attorney Brad Jerbic with being instrumental in making the deal. [Las Vegas Sun]
Here’s an interview with MGM CEO Jim Murren. [TNI]
Las Vegas’ proposed homeless camping ban will likely face legal challenges. [RJ]
Some opioid companies have reached settlements. [Fox5Vegas]
If you had any doubts that there is something going on with Mr. Padgett, you need only look at the Answer and Counterclaim he filed in A793308 on July 3, 2019. Sorry, I am not sure how to post a link to that document.
Supplement to 2:26 p.m.: That citation is A-19-793308-C, Amy Sugden, Plaintiff(s) vs. Brian Padgett, Defendant(s). Hard to find without the missing "-19-" part.
Why would being smacked in the face with a carp help someone identify a valid bar complaint?
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October 21, 2019 4:24 pm
Serious question, but why is the dean of the law school on this panel and part of the state bar BOG as ex officio? The guy has no connection to Nevada other than working here at the law school. It looks like he is a career academic. I don't see that he ever really practiced law, let alone in Nevada. I understand you don't have to practice here to vet someone, but what's the advantage of having someone who, at least superficially, is not invested in the community involved at that level? Is it some kind of club I'm not aware of? Does someone need something from him?
"This guy has no connection to Nevada [apart from working for the sole law school in the state]." As much as it grinds your gears, it is an important role. And as far as not being invested in the community, I find that to be very untrue.
The position is important. He may be active in the community, but has no personal skin in the game like the rest of us do. He's a temporary figure that will serve as Dean for a few years, retire and then move elsewhere. That's why I resent him pushing an agenda to make long-term changes to the practice of law.
He gets paid to run and represent the state's law school as best he can. Showing the dean of the law school with high profile politicians like current and former Senators and Governors and on high profile boards like this can probably be used to show the law school's connection to major players in the state. I'd imagine that can help ink a few more higher profile prospective students. Hate on him all you want over reciprocity (I personally don't want it either), but he's doing his job, and I think he's doing it pretty well.
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October 21, 2019 5:45 pm
As far as the Huntridge Theatre Complex, long time residents of Vegas, who tend to read the news, are probably bored to death by the tedium of the sporadic articles which appear a few times per year, each and every year for decades which proclaim that the historic lot will be re-developed, and re-opened and brought back to life with much fanfare, etc.
It's been sitting vacant for like two decades, and the occasional nostalgic feel-good article about how some developer or visionary wants to breathe new life into this supposedly wonderful gateway to the Vegas of yesteryear, winds up being much ado about absolutely nothing.
10:45–I've noticed the same thing. There are periodic stories over the years about someone intending to restore the Huntridge Center.
But each time there is such an article, the next article on such topic is never concerning the progress being made by such individuals or agencies. Instead, it's invariably about some new individual or agency that intends to restore the center.
Demo it. The building serves no useful purpose. If the building was a true work of art, then it should be saved. It is not. Get rid of it. Want to know how I really feel?
The last "renovation" looks like shit because they painted about 2/3 of the exterior, and then just stopped.
But yes, I've been here long enough that I agree with 1:27 and 6:47. Just get rid of the thing. Nostalgia is nice if it's upkept; this dinosaur has not.
Remember the Moulin Rouge?? No politician would dare touch the remnants of that casino even until the last few years, lest they offend the precious few in the black community who idolized what it stood for, DESPITE THE FACT it was not open for many many years (since the 1950's, right?). This, despite the fact that prior to the last few structures burning down a few years ago, it literally looked like a post-WWIII wasteland where only the homeless and drug users would stay.
The Moulin Rouge had great symbolic value, particularly because black businesses had been pushed out of downtown. Nevertheless, it was only open for 5 months. It's too bad it couldn't be saved.
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October 21, 2019 6:08 pm
BLOG IS DEAD.
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October 21, 2019 9:50 pm
Call the above for legal advice, only true hacker in the world
The building was built with half as many elevators as required per design load specifications because of cost overruns. The elevators got the budget ax.
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October 22, 2019 1:50 am
4:45 new to the RJC? Years ago there was a CLE that included a parody of the RJC elevators wherein a "fastpass" could be purchased by leaving a few bucks in a judicial tip jar.
https://briancpadgett.net/
This website is insane.
wow.
I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't that.
Who is the person posting on the website? I couldn't see the relationship. Was it a family member of the young lady who Passed Away?
Does this lawyer still practice?
The bar website shows him as an active attorney with no disciplinary actions. His website describes him as an eminent domain attorney
If you had any doubts that there is something going on with Mr. Padgett, you need only look at the Answer and Counterclaim he filed in A793308 on July 3, 2019. Sorry, I am not sure how to post a link to that document.
I wonder if Rob Bare would go after an attorney who is being harassed by another attorney, and that attorney told them off?
How is this dude still allowed to practice? Abbi? Elissa? Jim?
OBC is the big Jim, I mean joke going. Ryan would not know a valid bar complaint if he was smacked in the face with a Lake Mead carp.
Supplement to 2:26 p.m.: That citation is A-19-793308-C, Amy Sugden, Plaintiff(s) vs. Brian Padgett, Defendant(s). Hard to find without the missing "-19-" part.
Why would being smacked in the face with a carp help someone identify a valid bar complaint?
Serious question, but why is the dean of the law school on this panel and part of the state bar BOG as ex officio? The guy has no connection to Nevada other than working here at the law school. It looks like he is a career academic. I don't see that he ever really practiced law, let alone in Nevada. I understand you don't have to practice here to vet someone, but what's the advantage of having someone who, at least superficially, is not invested in the community involved at that level? Is it some kind of club I'm not aware of? Does someone need something from him?
"This guy has no connection to Nevada [apart from working for the sole law school in the state]." As much as it grinds your gears, it is an important role. And as far as not being invested in the community, I find that to be very untrue.
The position is important. He may be active in the community, but has no personal skin in the game like the rest of us do. He's a temporary figure that will serve as Dean for a few years, retire and then move elsewhere. That's why I resent him pushing an agenda to make long-term changes to the practice of law.
He gets paid to run and represent the state's law school as best he can. Showing the dean of the law school with high profile politicians like current and former Senators and Governors and on high profile boards like this can probably be used to show the law school's connection to major players in the state. I'd imagine that can help ink a few more higher profile prospective students. Hate on him all you want over reciprocity (I personally don't want it either), but he's doing his job, and I think he's doing it pretty well.
As far as the Huntridge Theatre Complex, long time residents of Vegas, who tend to read the news, are probably bored to death by the tedium of the sporadic articles which appear a few times per year, each and every year for decades which proclaim that the historic lot will be re-developed, and re-opened and brought back to life with much fanfare, etc.
It's been sitting vacant for like two decades, and the occasional nostalgic feel-good article about how some developer or visionary wants to breathe new life into this supposedly wonderful gateway to the Vegas of yesteryear, winds up being much ado about absolutely nothing.
10:45–I've noticed the same thing. There are periodic stories over the years about someone intending to restore the Huntridge Center.
But each time there is such an article, the next article on such topic is never concerning the progress being made by such individuals or agencies. Instead, it's invariably about some new individual or agency that intends to restore the center.
BOGs rule!!!!
Demo it. The building serves no useful purpose. If the building was a true work of art, then it should be saved. It is not. Get rid of it. Want to know how I really feel?
The last "renovation" looks like shit because they painted about 2/3 of the exterior, and then just stopped.
But yes, I've been here long enough that I agree with 1:27 and 6:47. Just get rid of the thing. Nostalgia is nice if it's upkept; this dinosaur has not.
Remember the Moulin Rouge?? No politician would dare touch the remnants of that casino even until the last few years, lest they offend the precious few in the black community who idolized what it stood for, DESPITE THE FACT it was not open for many many years (since the 1950's, right?). This, despite the fact that prior to the last few structures burning down a few years ago, it literally looked like a post-WWIII wasteland where only the homeless and drug users would stay.
The Moulin Rouge had great symbolic value, particularly because black businesses had been pushed out of downtown. Nevertheless, it was only open for 5 months. It's too bad it couldn't be saved.
BLOG IS DEAD.
Call the above for legal advice, only true hacker in the world
It's a registered trademark. Prestige for days.
Why are the elevators in the RJC so slow?
It is not slowness so much as numerosity. Ask Nancy Becker next time you see her.
The building was built with half as many elevators as required per design load specifications because of cost overruns. The elevators got the budget ax.
4:45 new to the RJC? Years ago there was a CLE that included a parody of the RJC elevators wherein a "fastpass" could be purchased by leaving a few bucks in a judicial tip jar.