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- Above the Law has an article on the possible purchase of Jennie Dorsey’s judicial nomination titled The High Price of the Federal Bench.
- The trial of Dr. Depak Desai started up this week before Judge Valerie Adair and a jury of his peers. The RJ reports that Desai stared forward, not acknowledging the witness on the stand talking about how her husband’s life has been ruined by Hep C. The RJ also suggests this trial could go on for two months. Time to earn your high union salaries, Clark County prosecutors!
- Flavor Flav will be going to trial on domestic violence charges before Judge Carolyn Ellsworth on September 30, 2013. They’re going to have to move her out of her small courtroom to accomodate all the intense media scrutiny this will likely draw.
- Attorney/Assemblywoman Lucy Flores is in the spotlight again revisiting her comments in support of revamping sex education in Nevada. Flores, who is also very active on Twitter, was getting called out yesterday by Jon Ralston for not making time for his show.
- The Sun/Vegas Inc. is reporting that over 45 people infected by Salmonella at Firefly have retained Bill Marler to represent them in their lawsuits against the restaurant. Looks like Craig Murphy is getting in on the action as local counsel. The article also reports that Ryan Osterholm has 20 clients of his own in this case. Talk about niche market lawyering. It’s surprising that we don’t have a specialist like this in our own market given the number of tasty buffets/petri dishes we claim.
Anything else going on?
"Prior to joining Pritzker Olsen, Ryan worked as a summer associate at Marler Clark in Seattle, Washington." In other words, sounds like everything comes from Marler Clark
Talk about a true ambulance chaser. With all the attorneys in Vegas this guy comes all the way from Washington.
Food poisoning specialist? How hard is this case really? The health department has already proven where the salmonella came from.
I just cant imagine there's enough insurance to go around.
Ah, but you're forgetting:
The food distributor had an obligation to monitor the amount of food Firefly was ordering. Since they were ordering too much, clearly the food distributor was at fault for not suspecting they were cooking food too quickly or not adequately. Sure, everyone involved had a health certification from the Health Department, but that's no excuse.
The Heath Inspector performed on-site inspections and certified Firefly as having an A rating during the time of the poisoning. They are to blame for steering patients- er, I mean patrons- to the restaurant and for not ensuring the quality of food matched up to their standards. I mean, Firefly even had problems in the past! And they let him operate!
And let's not even talk about the credit card companies, who are clearly at fault for paying the bills incurred at this establishment. They had a duty to monitor the food care to make sure none of their cardholders employed the services of unclean hands.
See? Plenty of blame for everyone! Have fun, boys!
Where does Jon Ralston get off on calling people out for not going on his show? He is not a non-profit corporation; he runs his show for his own financial gain, and the way he hounddogs people to appear on his show, like they have a duty to do so, bugs me.
11:21,
EXACTLY!
Not only did Ralston call Flores out, he THREATENED her.
Ralston is an entitled, whiny little bitch. Why does anyone have any obligation to rearrange their schedule to go on his show anyway?
The thing that kills me about Ralston is that he makes his living of fault finding in others, but the minute you ask him a pointed question on Twitter, he bans you! WTF?
Lucy, if you read this, I support you never going on Ralston's show. He's a bully.
@12:29,
Were there more tweets that are currently on Ralston's feed? Because from what I see, there were only 4 or 5. One that says Lucy was ducking. Lucy responded and said she was busy. Ralston snarked back, then dropped another snarky comment. She snapped back in all caps that she was chairing her committee on legislative operations, and one final tweet from Ralston, and that was about it. Your definition of threatening must be very different than mine.
@ May 8, 2013 at 10:49 AM
This fact pattern seems so similar to another one in this community…
Just kidding, excellent analogy though.
re 2:56 p.m, May 8: usually I HATE people who turn adverbs or nouns into verbs, but I love your use of "snarked". I'm stealing it. Also, the analogy to that other case is scary. You just know some yahoo will try it.
I know he is on the way out the door and really could not care at all about our local practitioners, but the 92 page diatribe that Markell unleashed against DeLuca was over the top. It reads like a vendetta against a practitioner or style of practitioners
Re Markell/Deluca. I can't find the opinion. Is it available publicly? If it was removed from the court's site due to a motion by Deluca but was available for a short while and someone nabbed it, put it up somewhere so we can all see it!
http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/jane-ann-morrison/judge-has-harsh-words-attorneys-operating-bankruptcy-mills
This summarizes it
Except JAM's summary of BAM is wrong if you read the Order.
I'm not looking for a summary. I like to read the actual order to make sure (as it says above) that the article is not mis-characterizing the sanction order.
If someone has the order, please upload it to a site somewhere and link to it.