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Archive for December, 2006
Thursday, December 21, 2006 Thursday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius Oh, snap! Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman must have realized that the year was coming to a close, and that his chances of winning the coveted Irony Prize were not yet sewn up. So he jumped in with a last-minute, at-the-buzzer quote that's sure to capture the title!
How else to describe this remark, contained in [...]
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 Starbucks is under attack By Ian Mylchreest Well at least in the way that Goliath was under attack when David picked up his slingshot. A Seattle-area coffee house owner is suing the giant chain for antitrust violations, reports USA Today.
Penny Stafford is suing after she unsuccessfully tried to get space in a "Class A" office building in downtown Seattle to set [...]
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Wednesday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius Who's tired of hearing about the fight against the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act? Well, a major milestone will be reached at 3 p.m. today, when District Court Judge Douglas Herndon rules on whether some tavern, bar, convenience store, grocery store and slot route owners deserve to get a preliminary injunction.
And while we'd never [...]
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 This just in! By Steve Sebelius District Court Judge Douglas Herndon says he'll render a decision in the lawsuit against the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The ruling will come after a marathon hearing today in which state officials argued with a collection of tavern owners, slot route operators and grocery and convenience stores over the act, [...]
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Tuesday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius Whew! Being a lawyer is a lot harder than you think, even if, like us, you're just a fake lawyer! Anyway, we still have some Quick Hits, and here they are:
» Buffy Martin Tarbox, the government relations director for the American Cancer Society, sure is surprised a lot. When she heard about the lawsuit [...]
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Here's OUR amicus brief! By Steve Sebelius As most of you regular readers know, we at Various Things & Stuff are not lawyers. We've received most of our legal education from JAG, the many Law & Order shows, L.A. Law, and the new (and surprisingly good) Shark with James Woods. Also, we covered state and federal courts for a time in Sacramento, [...]
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Monday, December 18, 2006 Monday's Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius » You know, we just bet Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson is still steamed by that mean old state Sen. Dina Titus and her reckless "pay to play" lies about how he often took campaign contributions from people who regularly come before the City Council for business. Oh, wait.
» Quotable: "A lot of good ideas [...]
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Monday, December 18, 2006 This just in: Deal! By Ian Mylchreest The Associated Press is now reporting that Harrah's has agreed to take the $90 a share offer from Texas Pacific and Apollo Management Group. Since the middle of last week, the company has been holding a marathon board meeting in New York, absent CEO Gary Loveman, to negotiate the final details of the buyout.
Working out the [...]
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Monday, December 18, 2006 Casinos and smoke bans By Steve Sebelius Nevada's big casinos were notoriously absent from the debate over Question 5, the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, before the Nov. 7 election. And why not? A ban on smoking was very popular, polls showed, and it specifically exempted gaming floors. What was there to gain by fighting it?
(Still, it should be noted that [...]
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 Casinos back smoke banners? By Steve Sebelius So the powerful Nevada Resort Association has decided to intervene in the fight against the anti-smoking Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act. But get this: The group is intervening on the side of the defendants who want to ban smoking!
The NRA is taking issue with the tavern and convenience store owners fighting to strike down [...]
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