Can someone weigh in on what is likely to happen in the Rodimer case now? Will he strike a plea deal? Go to trial? If he goes to trial, what are chances of an acquittal?
The stakes are high. It is homicide under convoluted circumstances. Could be a conviction, could be an acquittal or could be hung jury. If convicted he is going bye bye.
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July 9, 2026 12:05 pm
The juvenile stabbibg defendant is the daughter of a local female pediatrician who has 6 other children.
I looked and it says the son has cerebral palsy and was adopted by the parents which seems pretty nice of them. It also says she is a nurse and the step dad is in construction. I am missing the point you are trying to make.
No, the mother is the pediatrician of my grandchild. She is a DO. She is not a nurse. I do not know where you got your information. She has 7 children.
No. Just… no. Tractor Chicken does not make the list for Hero. Johnny 5 running out of life and spending it to swoop down on the bastard that beat him up? Absolutely. Shrek, Stallion Donkey, Puss, Gingey, Mongo and the squad rolling up to storm a castle? Definitely. Six Degrees of Farmhand stupidity? No.
Alas, bird law in this country isn’t governed by reason.
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July 9, 2026 2:08 pm
shouldn’t we just let criminals run away as much as they want, its not like they are going to be sent to jail for their crimes anyways, we might as well accept that we will be the victims of many crimes for the rest of our lives, simply nothing we can do about it.
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July 9, 2026 2:10 pm
Mark Hutchison is representing the landowner in Coyote Springs, so we know he is going to win the case, it doesn’t matter what the facts are.
I did not forget, Judge Denton isn’t deciding the case, government bad so jury will be sure to give Hutchinson a billion dollars for a new vacation home that he can rent out on Airbnb, who knows where the government will get that money from, even if he loses at trial, the Supreme Court of Nevada will just give him another bite at the apple for attorney misconduct
Looks like Denton has already ruled against a number of times. At least that is what the docket seems to say. He got a fee award of 12k awhile back, but outside of that looks like he has lost everything so far.
The merits are simple: Coyote Springs wanted to build houses. When they got to the part of the process where State Engineer has to sign off on plan for water, he didn’t do it. State Engineer didn’t say they could never build, just said that he won’t approve based on current water plans until they can show they have enough water. As a result Clark County wouldn’t approve the plan. Coyote Springs—which has been an on again off again project for 20 years, decided to sue and pretend the reason they’re not building is because of the state engineer and not because it’s not an economically feasible or environmentally sustainable. It’s not a taking under any of the relevant tests. Coyote Springs submitted one plan and never tried to revise their plan or come up with an alternative that used less water or even one that added enough water to make it sustainable. Houses have to have water. It is also important to note that Coyote Springs does not have priority on the water. They have some water rights that they’re currently wasting on the golf course. They could shut the golf course off, make it a desert course and use that water for the houses until the houses produce wastewater that can be recycled for the golf course, but they won’t even try something reasonable like that. I’m a 2018 Nevada Legal Elite honorable mention and I approve this message.
I think it condenses to something simpler. -Developer buys land and water rights.
-Developer submits plan for water use and Nevada gives approval
– but later adds conditions
– then, later yet, after Developer spent big money in reliance, Nevada says your water rights are now no good.
I was in house counsel. The Group hired Hutchison Steffen regarding a contract case. The most impressive thing they did was to unapologetically submit huge bills for doing absolutely nothing but to read my emails.
“The most impressive thing they did was to unapologetically submit huge bills for doing absolutely nothing but to read my emails.” I got a lot of “review the file” and “review status” billing.
The Hutchison and Steffen special. I stepped into a justice court case that my client had to pay $30k to get out of after he had already paid them 30k. Case never should have been filed in the first place.
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July 9, 2026 9:55 pm
S Johnson, Albertson, Denton, and Williams each got 40 new civil cases this month while Hardy got 3 business court cases and Gall got none. Way to go on the business court experiment.
Why didn’t the court publish lists of cases transferred like they usually do? See, e.g., AO 26-02, 26-01, 25-04, 25-03. Was it because so few cases actually moved?
With respect, the caseload comparison misreads the entire point of a business court. It was never a numbers game. Three matters in Judge Hardy’s chambers will yield more careful, more durable jurisprudence than forty pushed through in lesser hands, and the discerning docket is precisely the design working as intended, not failing.
I have appeared before a great many benches (AV-rated for some time now), and I can tell you a light docket is the tell of a jurist who reads the papers, who understands the commercial questions in their full complexity, and who is not in the business of clearing volume for its own sake. His temperament and command of these matters are, frankly, of the very first order. This bar is fortunate to have him.
What he brings, honestly, is the skill and temperament most in this town associate with the higher-tier AAML men laboring in our family courts, where the truly careful work of this jurisdiction has always been done. That the business court should aspire to that standard is not a knock on it. It is the highest compliment I know how to pay.
Tongue in cheek? Matrimonial law is the highest and best standard? (AAML – American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers).
Family court is “where the truly careful work of this jurisdiction has always been done”?
I’ve been to the Bonanza cesspool exactly ONCE and vowed never to return. It is like the twilight zone in there. Maybe I’m just not “preeminent” enough to deal?
Judge Gall is grossly underrated because she hasn’t been fully utilized in civil matters. IMHO she is arguably our best judge. I only had one case with her, but she is the most organized, efficient, polite and kind judge that I’ve ever appeared in front of. She is proof that a judge doesn’t need to be pugilistic or abrasive to strictly follow procedure. GOAT.
Go onlne for Justice Court or Muni Court. See what options you have. Traffic school? Reduce to Parking Ticket? Request court date? Face to face with a police officer, at a hearing, alleged speeders rarely win.
Civil infraction. No due process right. You get a hearing only after you pay the ticket in full.
-brought to you by the folks pushing for no bail and decriminalization.
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July 10, 2026 4:09 pm
Dear Probate practitioners: What do you do? Have a client whose husband was US Citizen but born in Russia and died visiting family in Russa. Ergo I have no death certificate. Can I open an estate (Special Administration) without a death certificate and just having the widow attest to his death?
US citizen, yes? Get the Russian death certificate. Then get a Consular Report of Death Abroad. The Russians will create a death certificate because, you know, body. The CDRA is the English proof that a US citizen died somewhere else.
No, you can’t do a Special Admin without a death certificate. The probate court needs proof they have jurisdiction, and someone who might benefit just saying it doesn’t make it so.
This is a bad take. I’ve opened many specials without a DC. Also, jurisdiction isn’t determined by the DC. Also a bad take. People die outside their domicile jurisdiction all the time.
If the court is going to assume jurisdiction over the estate of a decedent, there needs to be proof that there is, in fact, a decedent. The next question is whether the decedent either left an estate in the jurisdiction of the court or whether the decedent was domiciled within the jurisdiction of the court. The Russian DC is needed because that’s the authority that will create one. Just like if your decedent died in Utah, you’d expect a Utah DC. The DC doesn’t prove jx, but it does prove that there’s a dead body out there with the decedent’s name attached to it. The CRDA essentially converts the DC into a form that is acceptable by US courts. I mean, you could hire a translator and get an Apostille through the Russian Ministry of Justice (HAHAHAHAHA), but if it’s a US citizen, the US consulate can handle the CRDA and send it digitally. Or, it could, if it happens to be the rare SOS foreign service staffed by competents these days.
You can open a special admin without a death certificate, although you’ll eventually need it. A letter from the funeral home or government entity holding the body will suffice.
Just refer this out. Why get put on courts discretion and get yelled at when you don’t have to? (Looking at you, P.I. attorneys).
Refer it out to any highly-regarded probate firm that has a good relationship with the probate commissioners. They’ll work with the court to get it handled appropriately, and you won’t have to spin your wheels.
PSA to all PI attorneys, for a very nominal fee a good probate firm will shepard your estate issues through the probate court quickly and efficiently. Worth every penny to get them involved early.
We got 2 bow tie wearing clowns. One is taking 30
Days to approve letters of admin. Even a PI attorney could move quicker than that.
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July 10, 2026 5:22 pm
Any experts in Regulation CF raises in town? I have a relatively simple question regarding the 5 million dollar cap on such raises that I would like someone to answer for me. Client will pay you for the answer. I have found no case law on this issue and no no-action letters from the SEC or anything else that has been helpful. If you aren’t an expert in this area, but know someone who is, please let me know. Thank you in advance.
Can someone weigh in on what is likely to happen in the Rodimer case now? Will he strike a plea deal? Go to trial? If he goes to trial, what are chances of an acquittal?
I predict an involuntary manslaughter with probation
The stakes are high. It is homicide under convoluted circumstances. Could be a conviction, could be an acquittal or could be hung jury. If convicted he is going bye bye.
The juvenile stabbibg defendant is the daughter of a local female pediatrician who has 6 other children.
In her bio the doctor says she has a “medically complex son”.
I looked and it says the son has cerebral palsy and was adopted by the parents which seems pretty nice of them. It also says she is a nurse and the step dad is in construction. I am missing the point you are trying to make.
No, the mother is the pediatrician of my grandchild. She is a DO. She is not a nurse. I do not know where you got your information. She has 7 children.
Not sure the relevance of your post?
I’m holding out for a hero
Best use of that song: Shrek 2 or Short Circuit 2?
Shrek 2
Footloose (original)
Short Circuit 2
Footloose (remake)
No. Just… no. Tractor Chicken does not make the list for Hero. Johnny 5 running out of life and spending it to swoop down on the bastard that beat him up? Absolutely. Shrek, Stallion Donkey, Puss, Gingey, Mongo and the squad rolling up to storm a castle? Definitely. Six Degrees of Farmhand stupidity? No.
Short Circuit comes in number 1 by a far margin. everytime i think of the movie OR hear the song, i think of that very scene lol
What kind of a dick harms a defenseless bird?
this is incredibly insensitive and untrue, no bird is defenseless, what a horrible thing to say.
Birds aren’t even real, what are we doing here.
The birds work for the Bourgeois!
👀
how dare you refer to it as a bird
all of the above posted by a Boydie
Quack means “no.”
Alas, bird law in this country isn’t governed by reason.
shouldn’t we just let criminals run away as much as they want, its not like they are going to be sent to jail for their crimes anyways, we might as well accept that we will be the victims of many crimes for the rest of our lives, simply nothing we can do about it.
Mark Hutchison is representing the landowner in Coyote Springs, so we know he is going to win the case, it doesn’t matter what the facts are.
You forgot Judge Denton is hearing the case. I wouldn’t bet either way on his rulings.
For those interested, A-20-820384-B
I did not forget, Judge Denton isn’t deciding the case, government bad so jury will be sure to give Hutchinson a billion dollars for a new vacation home that he can rent out on Airbnb, who knows where the government will get that money from, even if he loses at trial, the Supreme Court of Nevada will just give him another bite at the apple for attorney misconduct
He’s a good attorney, but has anyone analyzed the merits of the case? who has the strongest legal argument? Why did not one win on MSJ?
Looks like Denton has already ruled against a number of times. At least that is what the docket seems to say. He got a fee award of 12k awhile back, but outside of that looks like he has lost everything so far.
The merits are simple: Coyote Springs wanted to build houses. When they got to the part of the process where State Engineer has to sign off on plan for water, he didn’t do it. State Engineer didn’t say they could never build, just said that he won’t approve based on current water plans until they can show they have enough water. As a result Clark County wouldn’t approve the plan. Coyote Springs—which has been an on again off again project for 20 years, decided to sue and pretend the reason they’re not building is because of the state engineer and not because it’s not an economically feasible or environmentally sustainable. It’s not a taking under any of the relevant tests. Coyote Springs submitted one plan and never tried to revise their plan or come up with an alternative that used less water or even one that added enough water to make it sustainable. Houses have to have water. It is also important to note that Coyote Springs does not have priority on the water. They have some water rights that they’re currently wasting on the golf course. They could shut the golf course off, make it a desert course and use that water for the houses until the houses produce wastewater that can be recycled for the golf course, but they won’t even try something reasonable like that. I’m a 2018 Nevada Legal Elite honorable mention and I approve this message.
I think it condenses to something simpler. -Developer buys land and water rights.
-Developer submits plan for water use and Nevada gives approval
– but later adds conditions
– then, later yet, after Developer spent big money in reliance, Nevada says your water rights are now no good.
I was in house counsel. The Group hired Hutchison Steffen regarding a contract case. The most impressive thing they did was to unapologetically submit huge bills for doing absolutely nothing but to read my emails.
“The most impressive thing they did was to unapologetically submit huge bills for doing absolutely nothing but to read my emails.” I got a lot of “review the file” and “review status” billing.
The Hutchison and Steffen special. I stepped into a justice court case that my client had to pay $30k to get out of after he had already paid them 30k. Case never should have been filed in the first place.
S Johnson, Albertson, Denton, and Williams each got 40 new civil cases this month while Hardy got 3 business court cases and Gall got none. Way to go on the business court experiment.
Why didn’t the court publish lists of cases transferred like they usually do? See, e.g., AO 26-02, 26-01, 25-04, 25-03. Was it because so few cases actually moved?
With respect, the caseload comparison misreads the entire point of a business court. It was never a numbers game. Three matters in Judge Hardy’s chambers will yield more careful, more durable jurisprudence than forty pushed through in lesser hands, and the discerning docket is precisely the design working as intended, not failing.
I have appeared before a great many benches (AV-rated for some time now), and I can tell you a light docket is the tell of a jurist who reads the papers, who understands the commercial questions in their full complexity, and who is not in the business of clearing volume for its own sake. His temperament and command of these matters are, frankly, of the very first order. This bar is fortunate to have him.
What he brings, honestly, is the skill and temperament most in this town associate with the higher-tier AAML men laboring in our family courts, where the truly careful work of this jurisdiction has always been done. That the business court should aspire to that standard is not a knock on it. It is the highest compliment I know how to pay.
Not many lesser hands than Hardy.
Bring back the learned hands!
“family courts, where the truly careful work of this jurisdiction has always been done” is the funniest thing I have read all week.
Tongue in cheek? Matrimonial law is the highest and best standard? (AAML – American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers).
Family court is “where the truly careful work of this jurisdiction has always been done”?
I’ve been to the Bonanza cesspool exactly ONCE and vowed never to return. It is like the twilight zone in there. Maybe I’m just not “preeminent” enough to deal?
This is really well written. I like Joe as a judge, but take a bow author.
We got one transferred from Kish to Gall.
God is good!
Judge Gall is grossly underrated because she hasn’t been fully utilized in civil matters. IMHO she is arguably our best judge. I only had one case with her, but she is the most organized, efficient, polite and kind judge that I’ve ever appeared in front of. She is proof that a judge doesn’t need to be pugilistic or abrasive to strictly follow procedure. GOAT.
Agreed, Gall is one of my favorites. Smart, timely, and fair.
Then there is Susan Johnson. Schedules court for 8:30 a.m., shows up at 8:50 a.m. and is then snarly with everyone.
But strikes out at you when you have to go cover another hearing at 9 (when she could have taken up your matter at 8:35).
Gall gets my vote for best EJDC judge because she knows the law and applies the law to the case, which she also knows.
What is the current method for handling speeding tickets? This is personal as I just received a ticket for 10 over speed limit.
I’d just ignore it. What could possibly go wrong?
Go onlne for Justice Court or Muni Court. See what options you have. Traffic school? Reduce to Parking Ticket? Request court date? Face to face with a police officer, at a hearing, alleged speeders rarely win.
Face to face? Unless something changed in the last year, “here’s a written statement by the officer” and enjoy your civil liability.
Civil infraction. No due process right. You get a hearing only after you pay the ticket in full.
-brought to you by the folks pushing for no bail and decriminalization.
Dear Probate practitioners: What do you do? Have a client whose husband was US Citizen but born in Russia and died visiting family in Russa. Ergo I have no death certificate. Can I open an estate (Special Administration) without a death certificate and just having the widow attest to his death?
Was the cause of death defenestration?
US citizen, yes? Get the Russian death certificate. Then get a Consular Report of Death Abroad. The Russians will create a death certificate because, you know, body. The CDRA is the English proof that a US citizen died somewhere else.
No, you can’t do a Special Admin without a death certificate. The probate court needs proof they have jurisdiction, and someone who might benefit just saying it doesn’t make it so.
Hope the spouse isn’t in a hurry.
This is a bad take. I’ve opened many specials without a DC. Also, jurisdiction isn’t determined by the DC. Also a bad take. People die outside their domicile jurisdiction all the time.
If the court is going to assume jurisdiction over the estate of a decedent, there needs to be proof that there is, in fact, a decedent. The next question is whether the decedent either left an estate in the jurisdiction of the court or whether the decedent was domiciled within the jurisdiction of the court. The Russian DC is needed because that’s the authority that will create one. Just like if your decedent died in Utah, you’d expect a Utah DC. The DC doesn’t prove jx, but it does prove that there’s a dead body out there with the decedent’s name attached to it. The CRDA essentially converts the DC into a form that is acceptable by US courts. I mean, you could hire a translator and get an Apostille through the Russian Ministry of Justice (HAHAHAHAHA), but if it’s a US citizen, the US consulate can handle the CRDA and send it digitally. Or, it could, if it happens to be the rare SOS foreign service staffed by competents these days.
You can open a special admin without a death certificate, although you’ll eventually need it. A letter from the funeral home or government entity holding the body will suffice.
Just refer this out. Why get put on courts discretion and get yelled at when you don’t have to? (Looking at you, P.I. attorneys).
Problem is refer it out to whom? This sounds pretty parochial regarding getting a death certificate from a foreign nation.
Perhaps a certain AV-rated family law practitioner can turn this into five billable files.
Refer it out to any highly-regarded probate firm that has a good relationship with the probate commissioners. They’ll work with the court to get it handled appropriately, and you won’t have to spin your wheels.
PSA to all PI attorneys, for a very nominal fee a good probate firm will shepard your estate issues through the probate court quickly and efficiently. Worth every penny to get them involved early.
Nah, dawg. Watching PI attorneys get put on blast by Commissioner Fontano is Grade A entertainment that I’m not gonna discourage.
We got 2 bow tie wearing clowns. One is taking 30
Days to approve letters of admin. Even a PI attorney could move quicker than that.
Any experts in Regulation CF raises in town? I have a relatively simple question regarding the 5 million dollar cap on such raises that I would like someone to answer for me. Client will pay you for the answer. I have found no case law on this issue and no no-action letters from the SEC or anything else that has been helpful. If you aren’t an expert in this area, but know someone who is, please let me know. Thank you in advance.
Crowd funding and securities. Shudder and shake at the many possibilities for malpractice claims.
Waymo story is hilarious.