Nevada Supreme Court Justice Saitta again in the news
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that Justice Nancy Saitta abused her authority when, as a Clark County District Court judge, she issued a gag order and sealed child support proceedings involving former Clark County Family Court Judge Robert Lueck.
The unanimous 13-page ruling, written by Justice Michael Douglas, calls Saitta's decision to seal the case without a written request and without findings or public notice "a manifest abuse of discretion."
At a July 11, 2006, hearing, Saitta found that Lueck was behind in his $750-a-month child support payments.
But she sealed the case, citing the potential use of the child support information for negative campaigning.
Obviously, voters shouldn't be aware that someone running for the bench doesn't even respect the law he is supposed to uphold, at least, if that person is a friend of Saitta's. (And $750 a month is such an onerous amount for a poor attorney or judge in town.)
Saitta is also the subject of a Northwestern Law Review article and a number of articles by href="http://www.americanmafia.com/Inside_Vegas/Inside_Vegas_Archive.html">Steve Miller documenting her efforts to protect notable Las Vegas "luminaries" such as Federal prisoner Rick Rizzolo. Apparently, with the extra scrutiny she has been receiving, the Nevada Supreme Court found it possible to turn on her; they just aren't going to do anything about it or the rest of the abuses lawyers and judges are committing in Nevada courts. After all, one wonders what they all would have to 'fess up to, if they actually sanctioned one of their own.
For more go to KOLO News Eight.