Today's post honors some of Nevada's historic courthouses.
The word "print" is derived from the Latin word premere, meaning to press or to bear down upon. Ancient Romans used several mechanisms to write, including pressing letters with a stylus (stilus) into a wax tablet (tabula). A blank tablet was...
Yesterday, the Nevada Supreme Court issued its opinion in In re Discipline of James A. Colin, 135 Nev. Adv. 43 (2019). As the name of the case suggests, the opinion involved a question of attorney discipline. Although this isn't a regular subject...
Alternative dispute resolution is a popular alternative to civil litigation which is often slow and costly. Alternative dispute resolution, however, is not new. Homer, for example, mentions arbitration in The Iliad. See Achilles' Shield And Judicial...
I am no oenophile but I have heard of decanting a bottle of wine. I am also not a trust and estates lawyer but I have never heard of decanting a trust's assets - until yesterday when I read the Nevada Supreme Court's opinion in In the Matter of The...
If we were on Mt. Athos, today's date is October 18, 2013. That is because the monks on that peninsula in the Aegean Sea still adhere to the Julian calendar. While I hew to the old calendar, I do remain a traditionalist when it comes to Nevada Day....
Although much of Nevada is unfenced open range (see yesterday's post), that doesn't mean that the state treats the responsibility of gatekeepers lightly. More than a century ago, Assemblymember Thomas Hagar introduced legislation criminalizing the...
Article 8, Section 3 of the Nevada Constitution provides: