Posted on 07/02/2011 7:16:22 AM PDT by redreno
A District Court judge on Friday halted, at least temporarily, the impending layoffs of almost 40 North Las Vegas Police officers.
The 90-day injunction was in response to the city’s plan to reduce its police force to shore up its dire financial situation.
Dozens of union officers received pink slips last month. Layoffs officially were to begin today, but the North Las Vegas Police Officers Association sued the city, asking a judge to intervene. The case has been in front of District Judge Nancy Allf, who today issued the preliminary injunction.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
I imagine this has happened before but it almost seems precedent setting.
“Judge halts plan to lay off North Las Vegas police officers”
Why have elected officials anymore? Dictators in robes are SO much simpler.
so what is the next crowd stirring group to get axed?
DemoRats, Unions and Judges——always an unholy ‘menage a trois’!
can't find 40 less critical people in the social services dept i guess... gotta keep the cattle happy
Las Vegas Sun is one of the news papers who sell their articles into the hell called Righthaven. FR had a tiff with them before. Is it wise to show anything from Las Vegas Sun on FR? (Not picking on you redreno — I would have thought the software for copyright rule enforcement would catch this.)
I see.
So if this activist judge's decision is so great for the citizens of North Las Vegas, why don't they hire a few hundred MORE police union officers?
Ecstasy should ensue...
•Las Vegas Police Managers and Supervisors Association •Las Vegas Police Protective Association Civilian Employees •Las Vegas Police Protective Association Metro •Henderson Police Officers Association •Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers •North Las Vegas Police Officers Association •Peace Officers Research Association of Nevada •Southern Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs •State Lodge of Nevada Fraternal Order of Police
Voting for the Nevada alpha Rat to stay in big cheese DC doesn't much help the lesser desert Rats wanting their slice of the wedge.
defunding? I was thinking tar and feathers
No problemo - let ‘em work for free.
Next case.
It’s funny isn’t it? The Judge won’t allow the layoffs and yet the County or town cannot pay the police. Will they work for nothing or will the Judge next order the local government to raise taxes?
In the last week or so, I’ve seen where Righthaven has been bitch-slapped by a federal judge for what it’s been up to.
The judge even found full articles to be reproduced without permission to be fair use. It’s something I’ve always thought was right. How can you have fair discussion of issues, if you have to pay $9.95 a month to every periodical in the nation just to see a full airing of the issues?
While I do see an intrinsic unfairness to periodicals here, the need for the populace to be informed trumps IMO. How can you and I address the problems of the nation, if every news report is immediately under lock and seal post publication?
Here, I found this:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/fair-use-defense/
So pay them with IOU's. If California can, why can't Las Vegas?
Just who runs the City, the damn judge or the City Government? The case should have been thrown out. After the officers were laid off then the suit could be filed.
Righthaven was apparently found to be in the unique situation that no market existed for any of the IP it owned — Righthaven never sold articles. From the point of view of the Las Vegas Sun this would be burning business bridges, as someone might want to purchase licenses to reprint a lot of copies of something the Sun ran every now and then, which would be impossible because the rights are now stuck until kingdom come with Righthaven, but that’s the Sun’s problem. The legal problem it creates for Righthaven is that in a court’s discretionary power to declare a use of copyrighted IP to be fair use, one of the factors the court must look at is the impact of the proposed use upon the potential market. If there is no potential market, if the idea is simply to sit upon the IP and deny it to others forever, this could ironically all but force a finding of fair use.
Maybe there is some arcane technicality about adherence to the union contracts in the occifers’ lawsuit, which the court will be forced to sift through and render a judgment about. But if it’s a frivolous argument, cosmic justice would dictate the union would be dinged for the moneys the city paid out.
“After layoff notifications were made in late June, the union posted signs around the city warning citizens that officers could no longer guarantee their safety.”
If the judge’s ruling stands and no cops are laid off the judge has just usurped the legislative body’s function. Also, if the ruling stands, the first victim of a violent crime should file a law suit against the police union and it’s leadership because their “guarantee” failed.
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