With a federal water shortage declaration regarding the Colorado River expected next week, this article calls out the Valley’s top water users–including some notable names from the legal community. How many people on the list do you know? [8NewsNow]
Sigal Chattah is representing parents in a lawsuit against the Governor and CCSD over masks. [Las Vegas Sun]
Meanwhile, covid stirred up the drama at the CCSD school board meeting last night over masks and safety as only 41% of the District’s employees are fully vaccinated. [TNI; RJ]
Here’s an update on the Republic Services trial, which is apparently being webcast for a fee if you’re so inclined. [CVN]
David Barron came in talking a big game to Claggett. But my understanding is Barron is running scared now. Claggett is about to eat his lunch and then some.
12:06 sounds like a plaintiff shill to me. I cant imagine taking a dead kid case to trial absent a pretty good liability defense. As a lawyer smarter than me (and who isnt) once said: "you can never tell what a jury will do."
P.S. I dont hear the overweight lady singing either (#dontcancelme).
Here is my real concern. Claggett has made quite a few bones in front of young, inexperienced judges. Judges who he (and Polsenberg) can push around. I like Bluth but she falls in that same category. THAT would be the one factor that would most concern me if I am Barron.
My guess is Barron now realizes he shouldn't be pissing with the big dogs and is begging Claggett to take a settlement offer. But Claggett told him settlement was off the table if he was forced to give an opening statement. Poor Barron.
Y'all a bunch of armchair dont know jack spouting crap anonymous posters just like me. Is suspect if it was a no brain winner for Plaintiff the case wouldnt get tried in front of a jury. We shall see.
Are there d-bag ID lawyers? Absolutely. Wanna know the BIGGEST d-bag insurance defense attorney I ever met and was an absolute a-hole to try to deal with? He now owns a building at 400 South 7th Street. Are there insufferable Plaintiffs' attorneys? Absolutely. Sometimes they are same people.
It looks as though, after twenty years of futility, two and a half thousand U.S. military deaths and twenty thousand wounded, along with a trillion dollars of spending (give or take a couple hundred billion), we may actually be disengaging from Afghanistan.
"Disgraceful" is a word that keeps coming to mind. It's been an absolute policy failure on the part of three different administrations—four, if you count the current one, which perhaps in fairness you shouldn't.
If our political system was fit for purpose, there would be impeachments of civilian officials and courts-martial of senior staff officers—dozens of them in both cases—for these twenty years of lies and incompetence.
It's been obvious for most of those years that our war in Afghanistan was of benefit to only a tiny fraction of Americans: defense contractors, the congressvermin who take their campaign donations, and senior military types wanting to put another colored ribbon on their chests and nail down another post-retirement company directorship.
For the rest of us it's been money and lives down the toilet.
One consequence of the Afghanistan fiasco: a mighty flood of refugees.
Student loans- the ABA got it wrong.
– they are too easy to get and are misused by borrowers for other than education.
– Undergrads (full-time) are allowed to turn a 4 year program into 5 by taking the minimum credit hour to qualify as a FT student. The rule should be: graduate on time or future loans are cut-off.
– lenders and the government do not evaluate the reasonableness of tuition and fee schedules. Universities add ridiculous overhead expenditures for assistant to assistant jobs, athletics budgets the size of pro teams (the purpose of college is to educate, not to build a sports empire), or build monumental buildings on ever expanding campuses. No one is concerned about rising costs because students can easily borrow. Full circle.
Student debt should be completely discharchable after 10 years. Schools should indemnify a portion of all federally backed loans. That simple change would reduce the cost of tuition overnight. Suddenly, universities will have an epiphany that perhaps the should not pay $300,000 in salary and benefits to the Vice Provost of Intersectionality, who teaches no classes and does not directly service students.
No student aid unless you spend four years killing and maiming men, women, and children in foreign adventures calculated to enrich a small group of bloodthirsty corporate fascists while destabilizing entire regions.
The military industrial complex loved Afghanistan. 50-100 billion a year in taxpayer funded madness that allowed everyone in their circles to get rich and powerful. They're sad the boondoggle has ended. They'll be looking for another cash cow soon. They'll need bodies.
11:04
What? That's not a rational comment, or even on topic.
I will give you leeway because today is Friday the 13th, and even perpetually unhappy trolls can have a bad morning. Peace.
If you get a student loan, then you should pay it back in full. No one is forced to get a student loan. There isn't one case of a person with a gun held to their head being forced to sign a student loan.
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August 13, 2021 6:08 pm
Can't decide whether the folks on the water list should feed proud or shamed. I would not mind being on that list; but here I am.
I have so many questions. The Prince of Brunei owns a home in Las Vegas? Does he live here? Is he single? Lol. How does one even use that much water? And, does it even matter given 100% of residential water is recycled?
100% of residential water is not recycled. The stuff that goes down your drain, sure. The stuff that waters 15 acres of turf, not so much. That's why the Water District gets super persnickety about overwatering, but doesn't care about inside water use.
@11:50 – Prince of Brunei lives in the 100,000+ sq ft home off Durango and Hacienda… place is MASSIVE. Have a good friend who lives nearby and has told me he never sees anyone coming/going from the property.
Yes the good Sultan stones commoners for adultery while maintaining compounds filled with his women.
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August 13, 2021 6:22 pm
Water, water, nowhere
Yet we continue to build pools. Have tapped our wells and aquifer empty.
The water shortage is not new or unexpected, was predicted a decade ago. In typical public fashion, we only now at the 11th hour become concerned.
Our state government water resources folks say don't worry, the Colorado River accord will allow Las Vegas to continue take our full share. What about next year? Hope for reversal of the drought?
Maybe, what does a lawn use? My pool is 34 x 14, and we add about 1 1/2 inches of water per week because of evaporative loss. With a little 10th grade math, I calculated the evaporative loss at 85 to 90 degrees to 400-500 gallons per week, or 1.2 gallons per square foot per week. I understand that the evaporative rate is much higher above 100 degrees.
Good article. thank you. Better to have neither a pool nor a lawn. As an aside, I did not consider the 30,000 gallons that have to be drained from and replaced in a pool every 3 years.
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August 13, 2021 8:55 pm
I'm all for student loan forgiveness. They've made it so virtually an entire generation can't buy a house because they're too busy paying loans. Everyone I know my age who has bought a house has done so with massive gifts from their parents. There's no other way to qualify with the amount of student loans everyone carries. And yes, I know there are some people out there who pay their loans off and more power to them, but the economy as a whole is going to start suffering when the trillion dollar student loan bubble bursts.
Also Sigal is insane. FFS wear a mask. What's the worst that happens – you DON'T kill someone's granny with your covid germs?
FFS leave me alone. Many of us just will not buy into the fake hype. Hype over race. Hype over sexual identity and preference. Hype over "Covid." Hype over "climate change." Hype over China/Belarus/Ukraine/Iran. Just stop already.
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August 13, 2021 9:09 pm
Question, if someone is held in contempt until they do x, does that have any ongoing effect on their case? Other than pissing off the judge of course. I am assuming they can still file things and participate in the case right? Of course it isn't a good idea, but I was just wondering what real effect this had.
That's a civil contempt order. It'll depend on the details of the order and what the contempt is for. If the contempt is harming the OP my guess is the judge will stop the contemptee from seeking further relief or proceeding with the litigation until they cure the contempt.
NRS 22.100 gives the penalties for contempt. Barring the contemptee from access to the courts isn't one of them. Now, that said, it depends on what the contempt is for. Failing to comply with discovery obligations, for example, has its own penalties, which could include the civil death penalty.
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August 14, 2021 2:32 pm
Robert Eglet is listed as one of the biggest water users in Las Vegas. He and wife Tracy live in Queensridge in huge home. Two people are therefore among biggest water users in Nevada.
The Eglets were definitely on the list. Real environmentalists.
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August 14, 2021 6:25 pm
Someone made a comment on Thursday about considering quitting over hitting one settlement. I have the opposite– a case that I recently got out of for my mental health. No other reason. Bills are paid regularly. Client has really meritorious defenses and claims (to the point that I foolishly almost considered them righteous). Howver opposing counsel are seriously lunatics. Client is off the rails. Asked the Court to intervene to maintain even modicum of order and the Court scoffed at maintaining order in a matter. Even my co-defendants' counsel are somewhere between apathetic and insufferable. It was a confluence of bad juju. I read the room and just decided that this is a case where clearly the outlier is me because everyone else is just fine with the nastiest litigation tactics possible. I have litigated for 20 years and it does not have to be this way but this one just is the deepest pit of Hell. I know I am walking away from a regular paying client but this case is just as miserable as apparently everyone wants to make it.
You did the right thing. If you are looking at a seven-figure PI case, then maybe tough it out. But for hourly billing, not worth it. I have a couple of hourly cases where they’ve spent 5-6x (easily) the amount that could have settled the whole thing at the outset. smh.
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August 15, 2021 12:49 pm
I wonder how much water the casinos use? I'm sure it dwarfs all the personal use combined.
Where can I get a Sisolak reelection campaign button?
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August 16, 2021 3:59 pm
Just go to any adult bookstore in the valley. They are on the ground in the individual private booths. That is where his die hard supporters usually hang out….
Broadcast for a fee? Or you could just use your BlueJeans code and watch it the way that every other hearing is being conducted.
Anyone have thoughts on how the trial is going?
David Barron came in talking a big game to Claggett. But my understanding is Barron is running scared now. Claggett is about to eat his lunch and then some.
12:06 sounds like a plaintiff shill to me. I cant imagine taking a dead kid case to trial absent a pretty good liability defense. As a lawyer smarter than me (and who isnt) once said: "you can never tell what a jury will do."
P.S. I dont hear the overweight lady singing either (#dontcancelme).
Jean Claggett, you are so entertaining. I am glad you are more concerned about a jury verdict amount than a dead girl.
Here is my real concern. Claggett has made quite a few bones in front of young, inexperienced judges. Judges who he (and Polsenberg) can push around. I like Bluth but she falls in that same category. THAT would be the one factor that would most concern me if I am Barron.
Bluth is a Harry Reiad/Polsenberg appointee, what do you expect? She kept most of Elissa Cadish's staff. Smell the Searchlight shitty coffee.
My guess is Barron now realizes he shouldn't be pissing with the big dogs and is begging Claggett to take a settlement offer. But Claggett told him settlement was off the table if he was forced to give an opening statement. Poor Barron.
This is claptrap. Barron is doing just fine. Claggett is being Claggett. Icarus type stuff.
Y'all a bunch of armchair dont know jack spouting crap anonymous posters just like me. Is suspect if it was a no brain winner for Plaintiff the case wouldnt get tried in front of a jury. We shall see.
David Barron, prepare to add a nuclear verdict to your resume –Sean Claggett
Fucking loving this, so entertaining. Why are insurance defense attorneys such assholes?
Why are some insurance defense attorneys so dann nasty? Had a case a few years ago who risked his license for an insurance company.
Same reason plaintiff lawyers are POS.
Are there d-bag ID lawyers? Absolutely. Wanna know the BIGGEST d-bag insurance defense attorney I ever met and was an absolute a-hole to try to deal with? He now owns a building at 400 South 7th Street. Are there insufferable Plaintiffs' attorneys? Absolutely. Sometimes they are same people.
That's Eglet. Get off Eggs for less Eglet's teet. Your ysdth are too sharp to milk.
Teeth
It looks as though, after twenty years of futility, two and a half thousand U.S. military deaths and twenty thousand wounded, along with a trillion dollars of spending (give or take a couple hundred billion), we may actually be disengaging from Afghanistan.
"Disgraceful" is a word that keeps coming to mind. It's been an absolute policy failure on the part of three different administrations—four, if you count the current one, which perhaps in fairness you shouldn't.
If our political system was fit for purpose, there would be impeachments of civilian officials and courts-martial of senior staff officers—dozens of them in both cases—for these twenty years of lies and incompetence.
It's been obvious for most of those years that our war in Afghanistan was of benefit to only a tiny fraction of Americans: defense contractors, the congressvermin who take their campaign donations, and senior military types wanting to put another colored ribbon on their chests and nail down another post-retirement company directorship.
For the rest of us it's been money and lives down the toilet.
One consequence of the Afghanistan fiasco: a mighty flood of refugees.
Never start a land war in Asia.
Student loans- the ABA got it wrong.
– they are too easy to get and are misused by borrowers for other than education.
– Undergrads (full-time) are allowed to turn a 4 year program into 5 by taking the minimum credit hour to qualify as a FT student. The rule should be: graduate on time or future loans are cut-off.
– lenders and the government do not evaluate the reasonableness of tuition and fee schedules. Universities add ridiculous overhead expenditures for assistant to assistant jobs, athletics budgets the size of pro teams (the purpose of college is to educate, not to build a sports empire), or build monumental buildings on ever expanding campuses. No one is concerned about rising costs because students can easily borrow. Full circle.
Student debt should be completely discharchable after 10 years. Schools should indemnify a portion of all federally backed loans. That simple change would reduce the cost of tuition overnight. Suddenly, universities will have an epiphany that perhaps the should not pay $300,000 in salary and benefits to the Vice Provost of Intersectionality, who teaches no classes and does not directly service students.
Amen, comrade!
No student aid unless you spend four years killing and maiming men, women, and children in foreign adventures calculated to enrich a small group of bloodthirsty corporate fascists while destabilizing entire regions.
The military industrial complex loved Afghanistan. 50-100 billion a year in taxpayer funded madness that allowed everyone in their circles to get rich and powerful. They're sad the boondoggle has ended. They'll be looking for another cash cow soon. They'll need bodies.
11:04
What? That's not a rational comment, or even on topic.
I will give you leeway because today is Friday the 13th, and even perpetually unhappy trolls can have a bad morning. Peace.
10:46.That's the best student loan proposal I've heard. Unfortunately, things that make sense are ostracized in today's insane world.
If you get a student loan, then you should pay it back in full. No one is forced to get a student loan. There isn't one case of a person with a gun held to their head being forced to sign a student loan.
Can't decide whether the folks on the water list should feed proud or shamed. I would not mind being on that list; but here I am.
I have so many questions. The Prince of Brunei owns a home in Las Vegas? Does he live here? Is he single? Lol. How does one even use that much water? And, does it even matter given 100% of residential water is recycled?
100% of residential water is not recycled. The stuff that goes down your drain, sure. The stuff that waters 15 acres of turf, not so much. That's why the Water District gets super persnickety about overwatering, but doesn't care about inside water use.
@11:50 – Prince of Brunei lives in the 100,000+ sq ft home off Durango and Hacienda… place is MASSIVE. Have a good friend who lives nearby and has told me he never sees anyone coming/going from the property.
The Sultan of Brunei also had a 70,000+ square foot home on Tomiyasu.
Yes the good Sultan stones commoners for adultery while maintaining compounds filled with his women.
Water, water, nowhere
Yet we continue to build pools. Have tapped our wells and aquifer empty.
The water shortage is not new or unexpected, was predicted a decade ago. In typical public fashion, we only now at the 11th hour become concerned.
Our state government water resources folks say don't worry, the Colorado River accord will allow Las Vegas to continue take our full share. What about next year? Hope for reversal of the drought?
Pools use less water psf than lawns.
Maybe, what does a lawn use? My pool is 34 x 14, and we add about 1 1/2 inches of water per week because of evaporative loss. With a little 10th grade math, I calculated the evaporative loss at 85 to 90 degrees to 400-500 gallons per week, or 1.2 gallons per square foot per week. I understand that the evaporative rate is much higher above 100 degrees.
I know it appears counterintuitive. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/watering-a-lawn-vs-putting-in-a-pool-essential-answer
Good article. thank you. Better to have neither a pool nor a lawn. As an aside, I did not consider the 30,000 gallons that have to be drained from and replaced in a pool every 3 years.
I'm all for student loan forgiveness. They've made it so virtually an entire generation can't buy a house because they're too busy paying loans. Everyone I know my age who has bought a house has done so with massive gifts from their parents. There's no other way to qualify with the amount of student loans everyone carries. And yes, I know there are some people out there who pay their loans off and more power to them, but the economy as a whole is going to start suffering when the trillion dollar student loan bubble bursts.
Also Sigal is insane. FFS wear a mask. What's the worst that happens – you DON'T kill someone's granny with your covid germs?
It's not very difficult to qualify for a mortgage, even with hefty student loan debt. That argument is so overplayed.
FFS leave me alone. Many of us just will not buy into the fake hype. Hype over race. Hype over sexual identity and preference. Hype over "Covid." Hype over "climate change." Hype over China/Belarus/Ukraine/Iran. Just stop already.
Question, if someone is held in contempt until they do x, does that have any ongoing effect on their case? Other than pissing off the judge of course. I am assuming they can still file things and participate in the case right? Of course it isn't a good idea, but I was just wondering what real effect this had.
That's a civil contempt order. It'll depend on the details of the order and what the contempt is for. If the contempt is harming the OP my guess is the judge will stop the contemptee from seeking further relief or proceeding with the litigation until they cure the contempt.
NRS 22.100 gives the penalties for contempt. Barring the contemptee from access to the courts isn't one of them. Now, that said, it depends on what the contempt is for. Failing to comply with discovery obligations, for example, has its own penalties, which could include the civil death penalty.
Robert Eglet is listed as one of the biggest water users in Las Vegas. He and wife Tracy live in Queensridge in huge home. Two people are therefore among biggest water users in Nevada.
Betting Eggs is pissed that he didn't rank higher. Maybe next year.
Does he owns cannabis? Then he and Nancy Allf are big water users.
Was Allf on the list of the biggest water wasters?
Not sure
She is not. No judges are. In fact if you want a testament to what small fish lawyers are, very few lawyers on the list.
The Eglets were definitely on the list. Real environmentalists.
Someone made a comment on Thursday about considering quitting over hitting one settlement. I have the opposite– a case that I recently got out of for my mental health. No other reason. Bills are paid regularly. Client has really meritorious defenses and claims (to the point that I foolishly almost considered them righteous). Howver opposing counsel are seriously lunatics. Client is off the rails. Asked the Court to intervene to maintain even modicum of order and the Court scoffed at maintaining order in a matter. Even my co-defendants' counsel are somewhere between apathetic and insufferable. It was a confluence of bad juju. I read the room and just decided that this is a case where clearly the outlier is me because everyone else is just fine with the nastiest litigation tactics possible. I have litigated for 20 years and it does not have to be this way but this one just is the deepest pit of Hell. I know I am walking away from a regular paying client but this case is just as miserable as apparently everyone wants to make it.
You did the right thing. If you are looking at a seven-figure PI case, then maybe tough it out. But for hourly billing, not worth it. I have a couple of hourly cases where they’ve spent 5-6x (easily) the amount that could have settled the whole thing at the outset. smh.
I wonder how much water the casinos use? I'm sure it dwarfs all the personal use combined.
1% of allocated resources
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2018/may/10/the-strip-might-use-less-water-than-you-think/
Where can I get a Sisolak reelection campaign button?
Just go to any adult bookstore in the valley. They are on the ground in the individual private booths. That is where his die hard supporters usually hang out….