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Family Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle is 0-2 with the Nevada Supreme Court on whether, after parents are found unfit, child custody decisions should favor placement with a family member or be in the child's best interests.
Each case centers on a baby girl born to a drug-abusing mother, taken by authorities and placed with foster parents who wanted to adopt her.
And each time, Hardcastle's subsequent ruling was overturned by the high court.
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In this typical anti-Hardcastle rant, Morrison neglects to mention
a critical fact: Hardcastle is no longer handling child welfare
cases anymore. She might have unearthed this fact if she had conducted
any research to back up her opinions — which she hasn't done
in years.
In this and nearly every article Morrison writes, she is
little more than a public relations officer for
Barbara Buckley, who of course is mentioned favorably in this
one.
There is a major defect in saying that Hardcastle was wrong
because the Nevada Supreme Court overruled him: The Nevada
Supreme Court is a political institution, not a judicial
one. Remember that in Nevada every Supreme Court justice is elected
by popular vote, just like legislators and justices. It's not like
the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices are chosen based on
some kind of judicial philosophy then are insulated from the
political thereafter. Nevada's high court resembles the U.S.
one in name only. Since every Nevada justice is up for popular
election in a few years, no one is going to oppose Buckley,
the Review-Journal or Morrison herself.
Who cares whether the law is inconsistent. What is important
in Nevada is impressing the voters (and not pissing of
the Rebuke-Urinal™) so you get reelected.
The woman walked into the cathedral just off the south Strip during the 11 o'clock service. Holding a cup in her hand, she bent down at the altar and exposed her buttocks in view of the congregation, said Mathew Chmielewski, who sat in the front pew.
"The Mass kept going. No one knew what to do," said Chmielewski.
The woman is licensed to work at Scores, Sapphire, Spearmint Rhino, Crazy Horse Too and Treasures. ...
"The incident was not intentional," she wrote to the Review-Journal Friday. "I am bipolar and I was off my medication causing me to hallucinate and go into psychosis. This was not a crazy party weekend in Vegas. I was sick and didn't know what I was doing."
The state's Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled to open an outpatient mental health care facility in Las Vegas on Oct. 1.
The facility, the Mid-Cities Clinic, is at 720 S. Seventh St. and will provide outpatient counseling, psychiatric services, urgent care, a medication clinic and a pharmacy, services the mentally ill often do not receive in an emergency room setting.
Family Court Judge William Voy spends several hours a week reviewing the cases of juvenile prostitutes who are caught in Las Vegas. He told Herbert: "These cases will tear your heart out."
But he told the Sun he doesn't think that Las Vegas alone is creating these victims. Seventy percent of Voy's juvenile prostitution cases involve minors who come from out of state, from cities where they already worked as prostitutes. Voy noted that most jurisdictions practice a "catch and release" policy when it comes to child prostitutes.
"We're trying to help these kids," he said. "We're trying to make a concerted effort."
According to state figures, the suicide rate among Nevadans ages 15 to 24 during that period dropped from 17.5 per 100,000 in 2003 to 11 per 100,000 in 2004.
The 2004 national suicide rate among this age group is 10.4.
Henderson police say the young driver, who had received his license only three months before, was speeding down a dirt road. He lost control and the car rolled.
Six teens were inside, only two were wearing a seatbelt. Fifteen-year-old Kelly Rochetto was thrown from the car and died.
Former Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs might not have much money these days, but she doesn't qualify as an indigent defendant entitled to free representation. ...
The charges she faces stem from many hours of video, provided to police by the Culinary union and the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, that indicate Boggs was living at a home outside her district.
In October, a hearing master denied Primmer's request to end the guardianship, but Judge Cynthia "Dianne" Steel recently agreed to reconsider the matter.
"I'm gonna tell you: I love mamas having their own babies, and it breaks my heart when your mama takes your baby, but you needed your mama to take your baby then, OK?" Steel told Primmer. "But it's your baby. You gave birth to that baby."
In agreeing to reconsider Primmer's request, Steel ruled that Hearing Master Patricia Doninger erred when she applied a new legal standard to the case.
Whenever I hear the name Sandy Shaw, I think about that strange age between adolescence and adulthood, between being a kid without a care and a grown-up saddled with life's responsibilities. Shaw forfeited the endless possibilities of youth back in 1986 when she participated in a crime that became known as the "show and tell" murder case. She was 15.
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9/20/07:
Help Identify This Young Child in Nye County
(KLAS-TV)
9/6/07:
Charges Filed in Last Day of School Fatal Crash
(KLAS-TV/Alyson McCarthy)
9/6/07:
ARRAIGNMENT: Court rejects Boggs bid: Ex-lawmaker told she's not indigent enough to get public defender
(Las Vegas Review-Journal/K.C. Howard)
Entities:
Clark County Board of County Commissioners (former commissioner) 
9/3/07:
UPDATE: Mother may regain custody of 7-year-old
(Las Vegas Review-Journal/Carri Geer Thevenot)
Entities:
Dianne Steel (Judge),
Patricia Doninger (original ruling by),
Steve Caruso (attorney for mother) 
