God that's a fat bitch

"Halverson's retention score of 8 percent was also at the bottom."

Retention of what? She looks like she's pretty good at retaining things.

"A staggering 84 percent of respondents questioned how District Judge Elizabeth Halverson exercises the law"...

Doesn't look like she exercises at all.

i am skeptical about the amount of "heavy lifting" that she was doing in her courtroom considering her immense size. that poor scooter.

What are you talking about? She has to carry that huge ass around. That's heavy lifting in my book!

maybe so, but she's so fat that when she hauls ass it takes her multiple trips. on a motorized scooter, no less!

In this whole trial, that scooter is the real victim.

I wish I was the seat on that scooter . . .

nice suit. somewhere an elephant is missing its circus tent

I wonder if the scooter seat has an ass groove...

FACT: If Halverson ate one less meal a day, all of Africa could be fed.

HLR, please publish an article on this.

Anyone else hate the flashing ConsumerSavingCenter ad on the right bar. God. I've added it to my blacklist.

Damn, I want a crack at that ass

Bullshit, that fat fucking hog can't write for shit.

Bullshit, that fat fucking hog can't write for shit.

HLR quality? Have you seen her website? http://www.halverson4judge.com/

Here's some quality writing on her FAQ:
I believe that the courts should interpret the law and not make the law. In doing so, the courts should look to the actual language employed in the law, as well as the legislative record to insure what is the intent of the law. That said however, reasonable people can and do differ as to what things mean and even whether certain laws should be allowed in light of other pre-existing laws or rights. It falls to the judge to determine to the best of his or her abilities as to what the correct interpretation is and which side must yield to the other in any dispute. One may not agree with the opinion reached but if the judge's decision is reached in an honest evaluation of the issues and with a fair hearing for each side, then that judge has done his or her job properly.

insure?!

4:43 is sucking at Halverson's fat teet. Warning, that milk is high in fat content. You may want to skim it.

Halverson & HLR -- a match of equals.

Seriously. After publishing that ridiculous Note, HLR is now the Judge Halverson of Law Reviews.

sounds like 4:44 wants some of that high fat milk to me

How does one exercise the law? Or did the writer mean exorcise? That makes more sense, given Halverson's judicial philosophy.

4:51: Those scooter controls require at least a bit of minimal exercise

She looks like the witch doctor from the movie Bettlejuice sprinkled some of that magical dust on her that shrinks your head. Then again, everything would look small on top of that body.

Judge Halverson is known by the California Bar as Elisabeth La Macchia. When she moved to Vegas (initially to clerk for Judge Kathy Hardcastle) she “gave” he SF rent controlled apartment to her sister.

Years later, after Elizabeth Halverson married her (ex-felon) husband Ed Halverson, obtained a Vegas drivers license, put her CalBar license on inactive status, bought a house in Vegas, and took a permanent job there, the SF landlord tried to evict Halverson’s sister. Much litigation ensued.

Halverson lost at the trial court and on appeal, AND AS A RESULT IS HAVING HER JUDICIAL SALARY GARNISHED to pay the $40,000 judgment against her.
Appeal, before noting that the evidence in the record that Halverson had permanently moved to Vegas was not only substantial but “overwhelming”, said:

“Before turning to the merits, we must address a procedural issue. The briefs appellants have filed are deficient in several respects. The problems range from the visual impairment caused by printing appellants' entire opening brief in capital letters, thus making it difficult to read, to serious omissions (appellants do not provide citations for many of the “facts” they state in their briefs as is required by California Rules of Court, rule 14(a)(1)(C)), to possibly contemptuous conduct. [On November 12, 2003, appellants filed a request for judicial notice and a motion to augment the record. On December 11, 2003, we denied the request and motion on procedural and substantive grounds. Appellants ignored our ruling and on January 20, 2004, they filed a reply brief that cites and relies on the material we declined to consider in our December 11, 2003 order.]

See LaMacchia v. Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Bd., City and
Not Reported in Cal.Rptr.3d, 2004 WL 1161646 (2004)

At what point is she going to pull Carol Anne out of the television?

4:55 - The brief in all caps was just the keyboard's way of crying. Would you want those fat fingers pounding you?

4:55, I laughed out loud.

Also, I second the motion that HLR should rename itself to Halverson Law Review.

Can we go back to jokes about horse genitalia now?

i think you'd have to be hung like a horse for her to ride you like a pony, eh?

NICE. This wouldn't be news, or gossip, or anything interesting at all, except that Lat put up a picture of the judge, who clearly has a weight problem. "Hey kids, let's all make fun of the fat person!" Thanks for being a ringleader on this, Lat.

I'd hit it.

"i think you'd have to be hung like a horse for her to ride you..."

More like "Hung Like A Jury".

Yup . . . considering some of the pix you can find of David Lat just by a 10 second google search . . . well, let's just say it's a little bit ironic that he's making fun of others appearances . . .

HEY! DON'T MAKE FUN OF LAT! HE'LL DELETE THOSE COMMENTS AS SOON AS HE FINDS THEM!! HE CAN DISH OUT THE MOCKERY OF OTHER PEOPLE, BUT CAN'T TAKE MOCKERY OF HIMSELF!

I haven't seen any pictures of Lat, but at least he hasn't single-handedly raised the average weight of this country.

5:29: my guess is Lat is doing a lot of things single-handedly . . . if you know what I mean.

"The brief in all caps was just the keyboard's way of crying. Would you want those fat fingers pounding you?"

My theory--since Halverson's appeal from the Clark County (Nevada) citation condeming her filthy yard and cesspool like swimming pool as a "public health hazard" was also produced in all caps--is that she works with a vintage typewriter and the caps lock is stuck in the on position.

For amusing Halverson back yard news video footage of Halverson’s plague dogs lapping black goo from Halverson’s “infested (cess) pool” see this link:

http://www.ktnv.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=1480138&h1=Judge%20Halverson%20May%20Face%20Clean%20Up%20Charges&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=121667&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=1&hostPageUrl=http%3A//www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D6595309&rnd=77846733

4:31 beat me to it. I suppose it was obvious.

Video of (former, sexy) Halverson law clerk and assistant:

http://www.klas-tv.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=1628043&h1=I-Team%3A%20Former%20Employees%20of%20Judge%20Halverson%20Speak%20Out&vt1=v&at1=News%20-%20Special%20Coverage&d1=146000&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=36786446

CHIOCE QUOTE:

"I did testify in front of the judicial committee and to be absolutely honest,

I could have sat there stark-a** naked and recited the Gettysburg Address

for as much attention as they paid to our testimony."

Nice how these foxy ladies dressed up for the interview. (Note the close up of the finger nails.)

Are these the two most ugly people in the universe, so much so that they make Halverson look line a "perfect 10"?

Yep.

5:29(1) - Lat does not delete comments that attack him. Have you ever READ the comments on this site?

Lat has been called every name in the book in the comments. But he leaves them all up. See also:

http://ecommercelaw.typepad.com/ecommerce_law/2008/01/david-lat-has-a.html

Aw, she must have something dreadful happen to her in her childhood to have made her become so obese and mean. I feel sorry for her and hope she gets help.

I wonder if that Weil paralegal would like Halverson's milky creamies.

You people are disgusting. Picking on this woman because of her size.

How do you know she has not tried to lose wieght?

I work at a Dr. Office here in Vegas.. I know for a fact Halverson tried to have Gastric Bypass surgery.

Due to other medical complications the Dr. would not do the surgery.

How dare you people pick on something like this. Especially since this woman has tried and tried to lose weight.

I know because I met her. She was very likable., kind and funny.

My heart went out to her.

It is clear she is really been through a lot with all this garbage.

This is really a witch hunt. Sad... all because she does not "FIT" in, yet no one will help her FIT.

Shame on you all.

Dear@May 22, 2008 8:38 PM:

It is not all about Halverson's weight:

>She has a $40,000 judgment against her arising out of a bogus SF-CA rent control case she filed, lost, then appealed (her Ca appeal brief was typed in all caps) and her judical wages are being garnished;

>She dined as a judge with sitting jurors and engaged in free wheeling ex-parte discussions with the jurors about the case they were deliberating;

>She married an ex-prision felon WHILE HE WAS ON PAROLE, called him "Evil Ed" and "bitch" to her court staff, swore him in to x-examine on his household chores;

>She referred to her staff as "faux jew", and "Bitch";

>She required her baliff to microwave her meals in her smelly bathroom, and to rub her feet;

>She dropped objects on the ground and made her baliff pick them up;

>She baracaded herself in her chambers and called 911 and claimed (falsely) that the court adminstrator was "assaulting her";

>She accused the court recorder of redirecting the court-room audio feed to her nemisis the Cheif Judge;

>Her house, yard, and pool were so filthy the house was condemned as a nuisance;

>She hired private bodyguards because she thought the court room secutirty was out to harm her;

>Her chambers floor was littered with sunflower seeds and cookie crumbs;

> She required her baliff to meet her in the parcking lot at 6:00 am (except she always arrived 2 hours later so he had to wait each morning) to report on who was speaking against her;

>She told her baliff to shoot her husband, and stated that she would "dispose of the body"'.

Granted, the weight and the scooter do not add to her judicial bearing, but she would not even be mentioned in the blogs or the news except for her bizzare and comedic misdeeds.

8:38, you are an idiot. First, do you know anything about this "judge?" We're not making fun of her because she's beyond obese, we're making fun of her because she's a horrible person. The fact that she's fatter than a whale just makes it more fun to hate her.

And cry me a river. So she's "tried" to lose weight. She obviously hasn't been trying very hard or for very long. She's not just plump, she's morbidly obese. Becoming morbidly obese requires a choice. I'm allowed to judge her choices and make fun of the accompanying (hilarious) results.

Dear May 22, 2008 8:38 PM:

1. Have you ever heard of physician-patient confidentiality? You have just blabbed Judge Halverson’s medical history (or part of it) to a very wide audience.

2. That said, and as long as you are in the mood to gossip, exactly how much does Judge weigh?

3. Did your office weigh her on the office scale, or did he need a special scale (like a truck scale) to get an accurate reading?

--Just curious

I'm having a hard time figuring out if Halverson has a "gland problem" or is just "big boned."

Could one of you obesity sympathizer's help me out? I mean, clearly it's not possible she, or any other fat ass in this country, got this way from overeating. That would just be downright logical.

No, no it must be that Americans' "glands" are overactive and the problem struck the South first...

Please, pull your heads out.

I can only relate the testimony of her bailiff lodged in the some 300 pages of public documents and affidavits on the Nevada Supreme Court website. (See here http://www.nvsupremecourt.us/highProfile/index.php?caseID=15)

Granted, this is circumstantial evidence.

However, Jonnie Jordan (the bailiff) testified that:

1. He was required to microwave Halverson's lunch every day in her smelly chambers bathroom; AND

2. Jordan was also required to clean Halverson’s private chambers, which was habitually littered with cookie crumbs, sunflower seeds, and other detris evincing willy-nilly food consumption, with shit spraying in all directions.

From this, I infer that Judge Halverson was constantly stuffing her face--at lunch, before lunch, all of the time.

Then there is corroboration in the form of her 500 pound orca like appearance.

Therefore, that ain’t no gland problem. It’s an eating 10 whole chickens, a case of cookies and 3 pounds of sunflower seeds every-day-and-that’s-just-at-work problem.

If that woman is big boned, them is some Hellaciously awesome, astoundingly Jurassic, National Museum two storyT-rex specimen bones, baby!

If Halverson lived in the Jurassic period, entire generations of Raptors could have fed on her corpulent carcass for millennia.

USC is not HLS quality!

(Not a HLS troll, just a bruin spilling the truth)

To the sympathizers:

Anyone who is not deeply disturbed by this womans actions and appearence has a distorted view on life. They both show extreme irresponsibility...i.e. not the type of person who should be a judge.

If you weigh that much, and you are over the age of 18, it is your fault. I know there are medical issues (very, very rare ones) which can cause this. Many fat people claim to have them. The ironic thing is that most of those conditions are easily treatable and people who have them are not this fat. The people who are fat like her get this way on their own. It is insulting to peope who suffer from gland issues that weigh 150 pounds to hear fat asses claim to have the condition.

quote is a verb

quote is also a noun.

i think that the u.s. should adopt new zealand's policy and not let fat people in because they're a drain on the health care system and society at large. maybe they could go to mexico and be used as pinatas!

She does have a gravitas of sorts.

Halverson has been off the bench for months now, holed up in her ‘40’s Vegas bungalow with “Evil Ed”, probably eating more than ever.

I wonder when the last time was that she left the house, or if she even can leave the house?

Maybe the doctor's office lady (above) who weighed Halverson with a truck scale but delivers the sad news that the doctor nixed the Star Jones option for the judge can enlighten us?

Let's be honest-- her weight is a central part of the problem. Her dysfunctional, bitter, and reactionary personality is almost certainly caused by the daily misery of weighing 400+ pounds and being unable to walk. Her defective personality is reinforced by a viscous cycle of other's harsh initial judgments (probably accompanied by physical repulsion) and her assuredly angry response to those judgments. Similarly, the filthy home and office are caused by a sheer physical inability to clean anything and a contributing cause is surely that lack of personal motivation that leads her to eat so much and exercise so little. If she weren't so heavy, most of her problems would probably dissipate.

Long story short-- put down the fork (or sack of cookies), Judge.

The author of the Note in the Harvard Law Review has stood up to be counted:

http://abovethelaw.com/2008/05/hlr_in_toilet_flush_flush.php#comment-601475

Phil Telfeyan, of Harvard Law Review and Harvard Law School shame? That Phil Telfeyan?

Judge not lest you be judged...or something like that.

Anyhow, she is a public figure and fair game for parody.

Now, pass the Oreos.

10:18:

Can you read? At what point was she LET IN to the U.S.? She was born there. More fool her.

I make over a million of your increasingly worthless dollars a year and I still have to wait for your mouthbreathing non-English-speaking "immigration officers" to let me into your worthless country so I can transfer my money out.

You go to Brazil and Costa Rica and you think that you are sophisticated. Fair game? You, and your poor people who cannot afford petrol for your absurd gas-guzzling cars are fair game.