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Still can’t see the terrorist for the trees at Las Vegas courthouse

Priorities are strange at the Regional Justice Center. County workers let another week pass without trimming rows of trees (not the palm trees) that block security cameras outside the main entrance. Instead, the workers spent their time...

Ritchie to step down as chief judge; Togliatti hopes to fill void

Chief District Judge T. Arthur Ritchie, Jr. informed his colleagues in an e-mail this week that he won't run for a second term at the helm of Clark County's court system. Ritchie will finish out his...

Bankrupcy judge allows Lewis Brisbois to withdraw in Desai case

The law firm of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has gotten its wish to withdraw from defending Dr. Dipak Desai’s bankrupt clinics in the civil litigation stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge...

Sisolak backs funding inquiry into process server scandal

County Commissioner Steve Sisolak led the charge to take away longevity pay for new justices of the peace as a way to save taxpayers money. But now he’s solidly behind Las Vegas Justice Court officials who...

Desai’s wife says he has brain damage

Documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on behalf of Dr. Dipak Desai provide a glimpse of the argument his defense lawyers are making about his inability to assist them in the criminal case. His wife, Kusum,...

Judges leery of email communications

E-mail traffic among the judges at the Regional Justice Center has been light all week. This comes in the wake of a Las Vegas Review-Journal story quoting e-mails from judges sniping at each other over the...