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- AB151 would prevent the poor from losing their license over unpaid traffic tickets. [TNI]
- SB93 would help provide personal care to Nevadans at home. [Nevada Current]
- State engineer prevails in Pahrump water order case. [PVTimes]
- Boulder City fired its city clerk. [BCR]
- Changes at the nvbar.org website?
AB151 is long over due. I have sat in court while disabled/unemployed/elderly citizens plea with the judge to give them more time to pay their tickets. Sometimes they are carted away to jail while sobbing that they simply don't have the money.
When I used to handle traffic tickets for clients, there was one time when I was at the LV Muni ticket counter and a woman with her child (about 5-7 yrs old) came to pay her ticket. She was a a month or so late paying and it had gone to warrant which added ~$100 to it and she didn't have the money for it. She was there with an active warrant so they arrested her. They sat with her in the chairs in the back left corner and let her call her mother to come pick up her daughter before she went to jail. Mom got there and paid the extra ~$100 to keep her out of jail. When you have the legal authority to arrest someone if they don't pay a fine, you'd be surprised how effective collections are. The crappy part is that LVJC and LV Muni (back then at least, I don't know if they still do) charge ~$50 to "setup" a payment plan. i.e. if you don't have $190 to pay your ticket and want to pay it off over a few months, you have to pay $50 for that privilege. It costs a lot of money to be poor.
Well, maybe some exaggeration or a missing fact. I have sat many days as an Alternate Judge in Muni Traffic, although it has been a couple years. I cannot remember anyone arrested or cuffed for a single bench warrant. If you can't pay, Muni has staff to do a financial assessment. A payment plan does have a $50 set up fee, but if you can't pay, you don't pay. That said, there is also a work program.
Most of the people who wind up in jail have multiple ignored citations and multiple open warrants. If you have only a single warrant, you won't get taken to jail, with exceptions. An example is an having an open warrant and you are at some later date are involved in a altercation or disturbance, maybe on Fremont street. That will get you a 2 day stay in jail, after which most citations are resolved by credit for time served.
BTW – a bench warrant is easily avoided. Show up on the date set for arraignment, call for a continuance. If you miss the date come to court and put yourself on a public calendar that very same day. Ask the judge to quash.
@7:07 you're an awful person with no capacity for empathy or the ability to accept circumstances other than your own. People are put in jail all the time over unpaid tickets. They lose their license, their vehicles, and their jobs. It's hard to pay a ticket with the last $50 you have is either going to the ticket or groceries for your kid. Do you even realize that $50 could be weeks worth of groceries for a mother and child? And if you check into the history of AB151 you'd see the push to decriminalize traffic offenses was started after a study was released showing the majority of traffic infractions came from majority black and latino zip codes. "Put yourself on a public calendar"? Are you kidding? You really think the average lay person knows how to do that? Go to hell.
7:07,
I agree with most of your comment, with one exception. You should know that the average lay person wouldn't move to quash anything. 100% of the time, it's going to be them asking the court to squash it. There will be some internal giggling by the court, the clerks, and anyone with a JD, but it will indeed be squashed.
7:07
you're a chick, right?
7:07 Yikes. Throwing people in jail for failure to conduct a safe lane change. Next I expect you to advocate for GeoGroup to open a for-profit incarceration facility for all of those traffic scofflaws who you felt needed to be sent away.
This is a modern debtors prison. Right after I was barred, I ended up showing up to an attorney session early by accident. I sat and watched a parade of indigent people explain they didn't have $400 to pay for a parking ticket and the subsequent warrant. Totally fucked up.
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Nevada Supreme Court reminds attorneys to not maintain claims that are objectively baseless in law and in fact because it can cost you. See Order, Nos. 81053 & 81362 (Feb. 25, 2021).
Damn. So she never actually compared the contracted amount to the contractor's license limit? Isn't that step 1 or 2 in determining to bring a contractor's unpaid contract claim?
To me the worst part is she had the chance to back out when the unfavorable testimony was adduced. That was her critical error.
Craig Mueller is in a similar posture with the Cliven Bundy case. Judge Crockett held Mueller jointly and severally liable for over $90,000.00 in attorneys fees and costs. Check out Supreme Court cases 81080 and 79058.
I don't know about the Cliven Bundy situation, and I don't know any of the parties in the Pintar matter, but I do not like that they sought attorneys' fees in a reply. I always thought it was prohibited to ask for new or additional relief in a reply.
I had a few cases against Pintar and she was a pain in the ass. Really indignant about her shitty cases. I'm considering sending her an email rubbing it in.
A colleague and I share mutual contempt for a very mediocre lawyer who, a couple of years ago, was sanctioned by the Bar. My colleague sent the sanctioned lawyer a copy of the Bar Report with her sanction via email to "rub it in." I was copied. As much as I loathe the sanctioned lawyer, that rubbing it in email has always made me feel unease. Don't kick a person while they are down.
Tacky
Disagree. Public shaming is important.
Without it you have girls thinking it ok to set up only fans accounts, or walk around like the kardashiaans or the disgraceful Cardi B.
Ill take public shaming over 10 year old girls singing WAP
How did some case over a patio cover or gazebo or whatever get to the point where we are talking about these kinds of numbers? Don’t people have any common sense? I guess that question answers itself.
To @11:48a – When you have two sanctimonious attorneys (Pintar & Teddy Parker) going head to head, this is what happens. Mountain/Molehill/etc.
I am a tv producer and I am producing a funny family game show for lawyers at the studios at UNLV. We may need 8 law students for contestants. It will be streamed to various venues nationwide, and our goal is to get season 2 to Netflix. We begin filming next week so contact me immediately if you're interested.
The VERY funny tv game show that I created is called "Opening Arguments" and all of the contestants are lawyers or law students. Enclosed is a sizzle reel of the show. NOTE – There will be no prize money involved in the first season, and the plan is to take this first season to Netflix where there will be prize money for season 2. Once you see the 3.5 minute sizzle reel, I think you will agree that the show is highly marketable, hilarious, and family friendly. Keep in mind, these are REAL lawyers, not actors or comedians. The sizzle reel says 32 lawyers, but we reduced it to just 16 including law students, plus the attorneys only have 2 minutes to present their case, NOT 4 minutes.
Blake
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Here is a sizzle reel of the show –
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Good luck with your project Blake. I would volunteer, but alas, I am neither clever or funny. I'm also not good looking, and this is TV afterall. I look forward to seeing more as your project moves along. Great concept.
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