by Jon Ralston Wed, 09/25/2013 - 15:39
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It's all right now
In fact it's a gas
Elections, they do have consequences, as does the hiring of a natural gas co… t.co/p5a1jIqF4Z
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The deadline is...alive!
Our capital team is all over it.
via @s_golonka and @tabitha_mueller. t.co/l5ZV2FSalr
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@s_golonka Was that @tabitha_mueller?
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@sallydenton @jlnevadasmith This is...something.
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Our @howardstutz dives deeply into a proposal for a lottery in Nevada.
Far from the first time this has come up, a… t.co/fvkksqTL98
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@Tom_Glancy Yes.
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@jaypoltwit Mindless fun.
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Good morning from The #WeMatter State.
On this date in 2015, Harry Reid shocked the political world by announcing… t.co/L7PhMtVCt0
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"...in a couple months’ time we can once again expect lawmakers to pretend the arrival of sine die is somehow reaso… t.co/sm8lq5wkQf
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"Avi Kwa Ame’s spiritual and historical importance goes back more than 100 centuries. By comparison, its official d… t.co/vzrcwmkPTM
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Another in our "Follow the Money" series looks at the massive amount of spending the trial lawyers did in Democrati… t.co/VWLtMSlmJh
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Las Vegas Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun cannot sue the parent company of the Review-Journal until a deal is signed between his siblings and Stephens Media, a judge ruled today.
Greenspun's attorney, Joe Alioto, says he is preparing an appeal to the Ninth Circuit to prevent the RJ from dissolving a decades-old Joint Operating Agreement.
The order from Judge James Mahan is below.
UPDATED: Alioto also told me that he believes that the RJ's attorneys were responsible for Leif Reid's request to withdraw from the case, saying they manufactured a tenuous conflict as part of a strategy to "get rid of the soldiers" on Brian Greenspun's team. He says Leif Reid's firm previously had waived any conflicts (I tried to get a comment from Reid the Younger, but, not surprisingly, he said: "I can't go into it either way because of the attorney client privilege.")
"These guys think they are fooling around with amateurs, for crying out loud," Alioto told me, while reiterating the case is simply about the "comeptition of ideas" and that the failure for the judge to act until a deal is signed would set a terrible precedent. "This would be a road map for others to violate (antitrust laws) by waiting until the 11th hour to sign a deal," he said.
RJ attorney Don Campbell responded quite strongly: "We unequivocally and without reservation and/or hesitation deny emphatically that Mr. Alioto's claims have any basis in fact. They are completely untrue, and moreover, we find them laughable at best. As for his condemnation of Judge Mahan’s ruling....suffice it to say, we strongly disagree as does the U.S. Supreme Court and many courts of appeal.”
(Disclosure: Campbell is my lawyer.)
All of this comes after I reported on the Leif Reid withdrawal, which was followed by a pretty amazing work of "journalism" in the Sun (notice no byline) in which Brian Greenspun said he objected to Reid the Younger's request even though the attorney simply said he was following ethical guidelines.
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