The court directed that Evan Carney be reinstated and that a discipline short of dismissal should be imposed on the officer, who had an exemplary record at UNLV.
Carney said he saw a man and his wife, and he followed them to a parking lot of a supermarket. The man was knocked to the ground and suffered a slight cut to the head, but he declined to press criminal charges against Carney.
The Supreme Court said “no reasonable mind could conclude that termination was warranted here.” The court said the decision of the hearing officer to uphold the firing “was arbitrary and capricious.”
To summarize:
-The next time the UNR lawyers fail to follow the law, lie, or submit/rely on manufactured evidence, Judge Flanagan will be OBLIGATED to report them to the appropriate authority. Should Judge Flanagan fail to report them, he will be in violation of the code.
-Should Judge Flanagan fail to report these lawyers, he will impose on the Supreme Court Justices an obligation to report him to the appropriate authority.
-The next time Judge Flanagan fails to follow the law, lies in his order, or relies on manufactured evidence,
the Supreme Court will be obligated to report him to the appropriate authority.
Considering I am seeing the retaliation team in the coming days I anticipate this revised rule will be in play before the Nevada Supreme Court in very short order.
The gang of retaliation lawyers include: Mary Dugan, Charles Hilsabeck, Kent Robison, and John Arrascada.
They had some unlawful help from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son Leif Reid too. More on that later.
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column. Blogs #1 and #2 are frequently updated.
THE COURT: What authority does he [President Glick] have to issue that order?
your Honor, in addition to the authorities that we’ve cited,
particularly that case, your Honor, where a similar order was
issued by the
THE COURT: If you look at that case, not only did
have that order … but they also had procedures involved, which
included an appellate process as well. Does the university have
a similar scheme-up?
KENT ROBISON: We have cited the code provisions, your Honor, that allows
the university to enact these provisions and regulations.
Attorney Kent Robison directly lied to the District Court Judge regarding his brief, which was devoid of any “code” provisions.
Both in his brief and at the hearing, Robison failed to produce any NSHE Code provision to support Glick’s authority to issue such orders. Robison failed to produce any code provisions because none exist.
Kent Robison is a local attorney in private practice who was hired by UNR General Counsel Mary Dugan, President Milton Glick and Athletic Director Cary Groth to help them falsify evidence and commit perjury to defeat lawsuits against the University of Nevada, Reno.
Good to know how your tax dollars are being spent . . . without your approval, your tax dollars are being spent to support corruption at UNR.
I ran across this quote in an NCAA major infractions case involving another university:
This was a serious infractions case, which included academic fraud and the provision of false and misleading information, violations the NCAA Committee on Infractions considers to be egregious.
Good to know that the NCAA Committee on Infractions takes lying seriously.
Last week's announcement that the NCAA again is investigating the Southeast athletics program — this time following up on new information relating to the men's basketball program — was stunning to say the least.
The letter Southeast received from the NCAA, which was made public last week, said information that was developed between April, when university officials made an appearance before the NCAA Committee on Infractions, and June, when the committee released its report on the previous infractions, led to the new investigation.
It turns out that as the NCAA was finishing their original investigation into this University, they were informed of new information about possible misconduct. This new information led the NCAA to open another investigation into the same University.
Thank goodness there are still people like you.
Fraud, perjury, officials blatantly abusing power... I'm rooting for you.
Terri, Hearty congratulations to you and your colleagues in Justice!!!
Great News Terri!
Congratulations! You've made it in the door. Now the real fun begins!
The powers to be at UNR just got back from an NCAA investigation for the same sh*t. Should be interesting . . .
We honest people must stick together to fight evil and corruption. Can I get some tights and a cape?
Terri you have brought forward some burning questions. We together have to find answers to them. It is appropriate to close an office (UNR General Counsel) that obviously is incapable of defending the very violations it created.
Thanks for writing about this corruption, most people don't bother.
Congratulations, Terri and group. You've done it. Hopefully, numerous exposures will occur. Also, I liked the part where your were appealing those issues the Judge struck down using SOL's.
Keep up the good work!
This should give us all hope!
Everyone is so happy for you guys! Way to go!
Super dooper - always good news when someone wins!
This Is Great! And a lot of the credit for success thus far belongs to good old tenacity and spunk....
You and all the others fighting UNR in the courts are great! I am not surprised about all the corrupt judges in Nevada with ugly toilet wipe ties to the admin hacks who run the system.
The UNR top bums make six figure salaries with full benefits. Even the criminal prez, Glick, gets his free parking and housing benefits - and that nasty CEO makes 500,000$ per year!
- Perjury
- Submission of false personnel files
- Falsification of public documents
- Illegal subpoena
- Falsification of legal documents
- Manufactured false evidence
- Solicitation of student-athletes to manufacture evidence
- Threats to witnesses and their families
- Witness tampering and witness harassment
- Embezzlement
- Perjured Affidavits
- Abuse of Power
- Harassment
- False and Defamatory statements in the media
Judge Patrick Flanagan recused himself from the Petition to Convene A Grand Jury on Public Corruption at UNR citing an appearance of impropriety under Canon 3(E)(1)(b) and Canon 2(A).
Judge Flanagan was a former defense lawyer for a UNR administrator in a 2005 whistleblower retaliation case; therefore Judge Flanagan is a former member of the UNR legal defense team.
Despite his noted conflict of interest and voluntary recusal from the grand jury petition, Judge Flanagan asserted no such conflict in presiding over my civil case despite involvement of the same interested parties, including Judge Flanagan’s former defense team colleagues.
In May 2009, Judge Flanagan dismissed all 19 of my claims on summary judgment one week before trial. In dismissing this case, Judge Flanagan erred when he misapplied the law, ignored direct admissions of retaliation by the Defendants, altered the record before him, referred to evidence that did not exist, ignored witness tampering and perjury by the defendants, dismissed claims sua sponte without notice, and made false statements about the evidence in his order.
Shortly thereafter I uncovered additional evidence of various alleged conflicts of interest that Judge Flanagan had with interested parties in this civil case.
This included evidence of a "very close" personal relationship between Judge Flanagan and UNR General Counsel Mary Dugan.
To date, neither Dugan nor Judge Flanagan has denied this allegation.
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column. Blogs #1 and #2 are frequently updated.
Are Milton Glick, Adam Garcia, Mary Dugan, and Cary Groth willing to take polygraph tests regarding their role in the corruption at UNR?
PRESENTER: So in conclusion, I guess I should just ask the question: Who are these people that you've heard come in here and at great personal cost, and in some cases great personal risk, have addressed the Court and tried to present their evidence?
These are Nevada citizens who have stood up on a matter of public concern. Terri Patraw stood up for female athletes, and she was fired. She lost her career. She's been defamed.
So the bottom line here is that the state cannot and will not police itself on these matters. That's why we're pleading to the Court not only to petition a grand jury, to investigate these allegations, but also to make sure that if there is such a grand jury convened, that it should be led by somebody from outside the state. We suspect that the only place where we might get a fair prosecutor to look into this is somebody from the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
- Excerpts from the transcript of the hearing on public corruption at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column. Blogs #1 and #2 are frequently updated.
A former Fresno State track and field assistant coach has settled a gender-discrimination lawsuit against the school and the California State University board of trustees for $300,000.
Ramona Pagel, a former Olympic shot-putter, alleged gender discrimination, retaliation and failure to maintain an environment free of discrimination and harassment after she was passed over for the head coaching position when Bob Fraley retired last year.
In addition, Pagel claimed that after the new coach took over, she wasn't given an interview for the assistant job she held for three seasons. She no longer is at Fresno State.
The California State University system has paid out more than $16 million in discrimination lawsuits or legal disputes since October 2007 involving five current and former female employees of the Fresno State athletic department.
This university has not learned despite being "brought to its' knees" in civil litigation in 2007-08.
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column. Blogs #1 and #2 are frequently updated.
PRESENTER: Witness, you made a point before lunch that there are no state fees allocated for legal defense to the
So what must be going on here when the
WITNESS: . . . there is no fund to pay for this, because the State audits its money; the federal government audits its money.
So the way it works, you get to the end of the year, and if there is money left over from the state, they do something called JV, which is journal voucher.
So they transfer the money to pay something in another account by journal voucher and then they transfer the money to a third account by journal voucher, and then by the third transaction or the fourth transaction, if some audit happens, there is no way to go back to find out where the money comes from because of all of these different accounts the money went through in terms of the transfer process.
PRESENTER: So the point -- I believe these documents establish, Your Honor, that somehow the
This process of journal vouchering that the witness described in any other setting would be called money laundering.
- Excerpts from the transcript of the hearing on public corruption at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column. Blogs #1 and #2 are frequently updated.
The NCAA rejected Oklahoma State's appeal to reinstate All-American wide receiver Dez Bryant on Thursday, meaning he won't be back this season. The junior is considered a top NFL prospect and few expect him to return for another season in Stillwater.
Bryant sat out the past five games for Oklahoma State (6-2, 3-1 Big 12) after the school ruled him ineligible for lying to an NCAA investigator looking into Bryant's offseason meeting with former NFL player Deion Sanders.
The NCAA decided last week that Bryant should be suspended until next September, and OSU appealed to the NCAA's Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee. That group announced Thursday that it had rejected Bryant's appeal in a two-paragraph statement that included no explanation.
In contrast to the NCAA's stance and in line with the wide spread corruption on the UNR campus under President Milton Glick's leadership, one gets rewarded and protected for lying at UNR (i.e. Former Golf Coach Rich Merritt and Athletic Director Cary Groth). See Blog #1 for disgraceful examples of lies told by Athletic Director Groth).
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column.
So how does UNR dispose of lawsuits? The administration commits perjury, perjury and more perjury . . . they submit false affidavits . . . they falsify evidence . . . and they falsify public records.
Here is the organizational chart at UNR, as presented to the district court Judge, detailing the role of individual UNR departments in the retaliation and attacks on those who report violations.
Links to all 5 of my blogs are in the left hand column.
RALLY DEMANDING ACTION TO BE HELD IN UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO CORRUPTION CASE
A public demonstration to bring attention to the criminal corruption case pending against the University of Nevada Reno has been set for Friday, October 30, 2009, at Noon in front of the Second Judicial District Court, 75 Court Street, Reno, Nevada.
Outraged citizens and the community have rallied together to demand truth and transparency in an ongoing battle to bring officials at UNR before a Washoe County Grand Jury on corruption and other criminal charges. If reasonable evidence was brought forth, the District Court was ordered by the Supreme Court to impanel the Grand Jury. The decision of Judge Steinheimer in this matter is anxiously awaited by all concerned, including the student community at UNR.
“This is not just an airing of dirty laundry. Officials at UNR have been able to avoid a real investigation for too long, said NSLEOA President Ron Cuzze.
Impaneling the Grand Jury will insure that the truth comes forward and those responsible for criminal acts and corruption at UNR are held accountable.”
The Nevada Law Enforcement Officers' Association represents members working for the University of Nevada Reno Police Department, as well as sworn officers in state service throughout Nevada. In addition to the NSLEOA, organizations supporting the request for a Grand Jury investigation of UNR are the Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers (NAPSO) and the Reno Outreach for Animal Rights (ROAR).
I have received voice mails from people I have never met; letters in my mail box from people I do not know; and emails through my personal account as well as my blog.
I thought I would share some excerpts from these individuals:
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Hi Terri, Just wanted you to know I consider you a HERO.
Best Wishes and remember there are more people in support of you than you know.
I can see the street fighter in you . . .
These people you are fighting are like a bunch of 13 year olds. Unbelievable! They have no business having jobs at a public educational institution. They need to be fired!
UNR's use of the UNRPD as its own jackbooted police thugstrike force . . .
UNR has a way of keeping people from saying what they really think.
. . . lawyers like Robison, judges like Flanagan, and UNR Police, well they all have one single agenda, and
that is to try to make the whistleblower look horrible, and UNR to look like the victim, and everything said about UNR is a lie, if it exposes UNR.
I know how the campus police and UNR administration acts behind the shadows . . .
They hate even worse a woman that exposes them.
I have been waiting for 11 years for the corruption to come to a head.
My prayers are with Terri Patraw, Lane Grow, and Richard Schweikert.
Something told me never to go back to that college and complain. I think they would have created a superficial incident just to write up a police report, and there is no doubt in my mind that this is what would have happened, because it happened to Terri later. I knew that their games would only escalate...
I wonder how many things have happened to persons, students and faculty, that we never even heard of. Students transferred away, and faculty moved on looking for new jobs.
I left Nevada but I know how corrupt these people are.
This message is from an current UNR employee who is in a position to know a lot about UNR cover-ups:
I've been following the news. You're right that people are afraid to speak out. I'm wishing you well!
Cheers!
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy
The study of the revolving mirrors and swirling smoke by the UNR Campus Police and the administrators is a study in its own right. How many persons were sent worm viruses by someone they employ on their technical staff, or on the outside, that were sent intimidating frightening messages, at the very end, just when their computers quit working.
The Campus Police sent me one, with my photo superimposed in a photo looking at jail cells, and my breasts pushed up, with the caption, "What the jails would look like if she were running them." They also sent me one with my photo superimposed in the middle of the UNR Swat team, with guns pointed at an apartment complex with the caption, "We wished she knew she were one of us." They did this whole mock-up to look like the front page of the RGJ.
There is no doubt in my mind the deep degree that revolving mirrors and swirling smoke is organized by Milton Glick's private police force on the UNR Campus to make trouble for those who expose the real goings on in the shadows, in any way, shape or form, they can use to shut you up.
You should have listened to Alan Mentzer on his televised criminal justice class refer on the air mind you, that anyone who contacts the school too much about anything is a stalker. The administrators never return calls, they just send out the thug campus police frat boys. I think it all really blossomed under Lilley, and Glick is a tool to cover fraud with more fraud from the insane Lilley. Otherwise, why would they want someone like Glick's reputation from ASU???
. . . I know how the Campus Police and UNR administration acts behind the shadows, believe me.
- Anonymous
The Nevada Supreme Court has ordered the Second Judicial District Court of Nevada to "conduct an evidentiary hearing and make findings in support or rejection of impaneling a grand jury to investigate claims of corruption" made by citizens against officials at the University of Nevada, Reno, its affiliated law firms, and the Nevada Attorney General’s Office.
Pursuant to NRS 6.130, Nevada citizens will present evidence of criminal activity by individuals in UNR’s Central Administration, including the President's Office, General Counsel’s Office, Police Department, Athletic Department, College of Agriculture, Affirmative Action Office, Facilities Services Department, and others.
Allegations include fraud, embezzlement, bid rigging, falsification of evidence, falsification of public documents, perjury, subornation of perjury, abuse of power, forgery, witness intimidation, civil rights violations, animal abuse, and use of the UNR Police Department as a tool to protect the public corruption operation and to harass and intimidate (e.g., illegal surveillance) whistleblowers. The role of the Nevada Attorney General's Office in this operation is alleged to include financial support of and legal protection for UNR officials.
The University of Nevada, Reno is currently under investigation by the NCAA.
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The Hearing is September 17-18, 2009
Second Judicial District Court
Department 4
9:00 am - 5:00 pm both days
The Reno News & Review thinks so based on this editorial piece.
Now, it’s easy to say that District Attorney Dick Gammick’s alleged arrogant treatment of these women and his above-the-law attitude of good-ole-boy-Teflon power are worthy of public notice and an editorial.
. . . as a journalist and a consumer of media there’s something that bothers me just as much . . . Why did the RGJ wait eight months to publish the whole story?
Now, there are only a few reasons the RGJ wouldn’t report this story when they first heard of it: 1) They don’t want to appear to be following other news entities 2) They assume all of their readers see other media, so it was unnecessary to publish the story 3) The newspaper wanted to protect Gammick’s office from negative press.
Three is unfathomable. The Reno Gazette-Journal’s responsibility is to its readers.
Its irresponsibility is the reason that newspaper’s dwindling to no bigger than a newsletter.
Its lack of news is the reason it’s no longer leading the community in the dissemination of news.
That suggests there are other places the RGJ withholds its illumination. And that’s worrisome for all the people in Northern Nevada.
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RGJ Editor Beryl Love told me in person that he gets threatened by officials at UNR if the RGJ reports negative things about them in the paper.
In a recent article I stated that UNR lawyers engaged in criminal activity by falsifying my personnel files.
UNR defense lawyer Kent Robison said those accusations were "absurd and utterly ridiculous. (Patraw’s) former lawyer examined UNR witnesses on the authenticity of the UNR records and he never once questioned the accuracy of the records," Robison said.
Robison's statement is false. He knows we exposed them for this well before his slanderous statements:
The defense team’s habit and routine practice of judicial deception is evident here. At the whistleblower hearing, this falsified evaluation was uncovered as falsified, and lawyer Charles Hilsabeck "corrected" himself on it. Nevertheless, he now tries it one more time, this time hoping Plaintiff would miss it and this Court would be deceived.
We also filed an Emergency Motion for Sanctions Against Defendants, the Defense Team, Cindy Fox, and Her Attorneys for Committing Fraud upon this Court . . .