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- Did Michelle Fiore violate campaign fund laws by paying a catering company run by her daughter over $100K during the last 18 months? [TNI]
- Dayvid Figler on “Seeing DUI with new eyes.” [TNI]
- Nevada man sentenced for trafficking endangered species. [Las Vegas Sun]
- Las Vegas has a new advertising slogan. What do you think? Is it true about the practice of law here too?
I like the Bar's new slogan: "What Happens in OBC's Hooge's Mind, Only Happens in His Mind." Any resemblance to reality is coincidental.
Michelle Fiore is absolutely awesome. She is the embodiment of Las Vegas.
I think that title, embodiment of Las Vegas, goes to Mayor Goodman who applies common sense but is always upbeat about our City.
I've met her and she thinks she is sooooo hot – maybe to the Bundys
She's a ton of fun who packs a gun with all her other freight.
I've met her a few times. Not my political party, but she seems very nice.
She is one jiggly sassy mass of womanhood.
January 23, 2020 at 9:06 AM – When my wife says men are pigs – this is what she's talking about. Your parents did a simply stellar job raising you.
9:06 here, I respect that you put your name here so I won't say anything in the blog I wouldn't say to your face. I truly don't understand what you take offense with. She came into my office one time and I overheard my male receptionist ask her who she was and if she had an appointment. She screamed, "You don't know who I am?" She then pointed to her body and said, "You don't recognize THIS from the billboards?" I took that to mean she thought she was hot and, in my opinion, she was not. How is that "piggish?" And since we are bringing references to our families into this, Why is your wife telling you men are pigs? Where would she learn such a thing?
This is too easy of a target. Please share your firm name, so I know not to refer cases to you, 1:35 and 9:06.
1:35–that behavior, on her part, was admittedly lacking in class and professionalism, but so was how the office handled the matter.
If an attorney knew a prominent local politician was coming in to see them for an appointment, they should have alerted the receptionist of the situation. I am assuming she was not just dropping by arbitrarily to seek campaign support. I assume she had an appointment, either as a client, or to discuss a serious public matter with an attorney there.
So, if that I the case, the attorney was a little careless not to inform staff before hand that she will arrive at this designated time, and then to cheerfully greet her and bring her back to the office or conference room, etc.
So, 1:35–if you were the attorney who had an appointment with her(and she didn't just drop by unannounced) then, sorry to say but I think you both mishandled it a bit.
Didnt say I was her attorney – worked there – appt unrelated to the law – gotta go – didnt mean to strike so many nerves about her good nature n class
You mess with the bull, young man, you get the horns.
Love the Breakfast Club mention, Captain Crunch a Munch is my opposing counsel. He has his intellect, and he has 5 earrings in one ear.
January 23, 2020 at 1:35 PM – To answer your question, my wife learns such things from the endless stream of media as well as real life in it's many varieties. Did you think she stayed locked in a mud hut? Maybe your wife, but not mine.
For anyone who has submitted a pro hac application for outside counsel here in the 8th, what's the next step? Do we need to submit a request for hearing? It's not a motion per se.
Next step is to tell applicant PHV request was denied, go back to California and NEVER come back.
An example of why you are required to hire, and utilize, local counsel.
Depends on the judge. Gonzalez? Strongly suggest to outside counsel that they should stay in the background for the entire case, or alternatively hold onto your collective asses and prepare for a wild ride. Any other judge? You're fine; the out of state lawyer can probably participate at the next hearing even if you didn't dot every i. Make sure to remind him or her how to pronounce Nevada.
Vegas is just a suburb of Cali now. We might as well build the bullet train from Tijuana to the downtown bus depot. I went to San Diego ("whale's vagina") last year and I thought I was in Mexico City. And before you get all accusatory, my girlfriend's name is Lupe and hardly speaks English. I would have preferred taking her to San Diego as my girlfriend and not an interpreter.
10:46 AM wins. Having a girlfriend who hardly speaks English is a very good thing.
I know who 10:57 is. Are you into sex clubs and dating one of your daughter's stripper friends? Thank God for that little blue pill!
I love getting PHV opposing counsel. I have more work than I can handle, so they're not eating into my practice. Plus, judges will never say it, but they absolutely treat PHV counsel like shit. I love it. And even if there wasn't a bias, PHV counsel doesn't know the written local rules or the unwritten way of doing things, which only aggravates the judges further. I say welcome to Nevada, 9:46 AM. And remember, it's “Nev-AH-da" not “Nev-AD-a." Make sure you say the name of our state correctly in front of judges and jurors. Good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6n_SC5xgeA&feature=emb_title
That's how you use power.
Christy Craig is running, good. She has my support.
and the state gets sued again. https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/reno-international-students-sue-to-play-high-school-sports-1941334/
This is actually a pretty interesting lawsuit. It could benefit Gorman heavily.
I can't listen to one more word of the sanguine drek from the Democrats. #MAGA2020
Democrats are too optimistic so MAGA? That doesn't really make sense.
Optimism based on swirling clouds of cotton-candied imagined transgressions provides me a basis for not wanting to join in their mass delusions and wanting to continue MAGA. I'm also trying to stimulate discussion and Make This Blog Great Again. Please help in both.
As an independent voter (voted for a long line of republican governors until Laxalt was my only option) I actually think the House's case makes complete sense. Sure, they'd rather have even more evidence, but they made a decent case with what they had.
What I also think gets lost in this – Trump's use of a personal attorney in official White House business is crazy. Rudy has no ethical obligations to the people and has no business being involved in foreign policy dealings, especially when it comes to Russia-related military aid issues.
I am 100% in favor of Trump being impeached and convicted, and even so I cannot bear to watch any of the impeachment proceedings. I think our entire country has lost its mind, both right and left.
We have a 5-year-old trapped in a man's body for President. On the right we have people who are willfully blind to Trump's dishonesty and incompetence. On the left, we have Democrats who can't seem to help but call everyone who disagrees with them stupid, evil, and racist. Then wonder why Trump got elected and why political discourse is so terrible.
And on the outside, we have China and Russia, and even our allies laughing at us.
The saddest part is that no one can seem to see past their noses and realize all the damage we're doing to our nation and each other. You'd think we'd know better, given for many years we had this quaint old saying: united we stand, divided we fall.
I actually think the Democrats making such a big deal over wanting new witnesses was a PR mistake. Republicans are saying at every opportunity "even Schiff says they need new evidence to prove their case" or something like that to argue the House didn't do their job. I never heard him say that and I seriously doubt he said that. And it's really irrelevant because the evidence before the House was pretty damning. It's just that the truthful testimony of a few missing links would have been the death knell at which point even ardent 45 supporters wouldn't have been able to argue plausible deniability. So I get why they wanted the additional witnesses, I just wonder if it was a public perception mistake since it handed the GOP a pretty good (but misleading) talking point to get people to tune out.
I don't know that it was a PR mistake. I think asking for witnesses and getting voted down feeds into the D's talking point that Rs are trying to cover things up, rather than have a real trial. After all, it's not the House's job to gather all the evidence. It's like a grand jury, that's all. It's not like the House is presenting all the evidence and then the Senate only reviews the record, like an administrative hearing or something. Which is what the Rs are trying to make it into. No, the Senate is actually supposed to have the trial.
The most frustrating part is that none of it matters. Trump's supporters are going to support him, regardless of what he or the Dems do or don't do. Ardent Ds are going to support the Dems, regardless of what they do or don't do.
*Freddy Mercury voice* Nothing really matters… nothing really matters…
"It's just that the truthful testimony of a few missing links would have been the death knell at which point even ardent 45 supporters wouldn't have been able to argue plausible deniability." That is not how we humans work. There isn't a breaking point at which an irrational belief, ardently defended, is suddenly abandonded because the evidence has become insurmountable. If anything, additional evidence will further entrench Trump's supporters. And don't pretend that you are better than they are. All humans engage in these kinds of cognitive biases and distortions all the time.
Evidence is completely irrelevant. This "trial" is pointless. Let's just have the election and decide not only who the President will be for the next four years, but what kind of country we really are (or aren't).
There was a comment the other day about the likelihood of William Kephart's re-election. Michelle Fiore defies gravity when it comes to ethics. I predict this doesn't even amount to a bump in the road in her political career. This is Vegas, afterall. What happens here, only happen here.
Was wondering the public concensus on which degeneracy will result in the most harm to Las Vegas:
1. Marijuana or
2. The Raiders
Raiders. We literally got the one NFL franchise that I just can't bring myself to be a fan of. Trashy organization and trashy fans.
Raiders has too many variables to know. If the economy continues to hum at a good pace then we shouldn't get hosed too bad. I do believe that we'll get more visiting fans to Vegas so paying for it via room tax COULD work as long as people across the country have plenty of money to burn. But we all know these things rarely work as planned by the modeling "experts." I sincerely hope that we're special because we're the hub of debauchery, and that people might make a weekend of their team's best road trip option. I'm just not sold and we hold a ton of risk once the national economy hits the crapper.
Im talking about social capital. All the new "vibrants" have changed Vegas forever. (Been to the east side lately?)
So its going to be a total blast adding all the pot smoking raiders fans to the mix. What could go wrong.
Yes how are we going to solve the absolute degeneracy of people consuming marijuana and sitting on their couch eating Doritos? The valley may never recover!
Met Carolyn Goodman when touring the Meadows School. She spent an hour going over every detail of the school with knowledge, enthusiasm and confidence. She is a power house. I wish she would take over CCSD. She would turn that sh*thole around.
I should hope she did, she's the founder.