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If Judge Breslow is so committed to presiding over this case and doing so with impartiality, where is his desire to maintain judicial integrity and question what did in fact happen here? Judge Breslow says he had no ex parte meetings with defendant’s attorney’s, as Egan’s text messages clearly suggest in the Motion to Change Venue.

Egan’s attorney says Breslow was not the judge referred to in his text messages. Yet he does not deny what Egan states in those messages is untrue: “I also was privy to 15 minutes of shit talking on a Zoom that 4 attorneys and the judge were present talking shit about the plaintiff’s attorney, they didn’t realize I had logged in and was sitting there without my camera or microphone on”.  Egan’s attorney in his reply has sealed the actual judges name. While also selectively omitting who the 4 shit-talking attorneys involved are - but states he wasn't one of them.

The City of Sparks and Egan attorneys and the Judicial District Court lock arms and shout from the roof tops that text messages concerning the case, the conduct of judges and status of mediations between Timothy Egan and Chief Justice Jones law clerk, Brien Hayes are a ridiculous mischaracterization by the Plaintiff. If you stand on the wrong side of this, I imagine you can say that without a conscience.

There are many moving parts this scandalous turn of events has created. What has occurred here will not so easily be shoved back into the genie's bottle. There are answers to be had and decisions to be made as a result of it and other transgressions committed by those involved.

If Breslow is not the judge in question, what remains to be resolved for all is who are the four attorney’s and the mystery judge shit talking about Plaintiffs’ counsel, conceivably as he sat in a separate conference room down the hall waiting for mediation. No sane person would think this discussion was objective, impartial, and in any way conducive to an effective mediation. Not when the proclaimed mediator is not impartial. While it remains to be seen if Judge Breslow will uphold the sealing of the judge in Egan’s reply, there is nothing confidential about it. For full transparency, The People have a right to know who was involved and what happened here. Even the plaintiff does not know the names of all involved and it impacts her case!

If I were a judge presiding over a legal case I claim impartiality on, one who had overseen thousands of cases and never been removed from one, as Breslow states, I would not simply want to absolve myself as the judge who participated in this.  I would want to demonstrate that I embody the principles of which I have just espoused in a public legal response. I would think it critical to this case to know what exactly occurred here. If we assume the judge in question was overseeing a mediation, a mediation Breslow’s court very highly encouraged – and continues to encourage, shouldn’t the mediation be objective? Shouldn’t the mediator – a judge no less, be an impartial participant in the settlement conference? A mediator with a single goal – resolution. How is disparaging Plaintiff’s counsel behind closed doors with Defendants counsel, members of the City of Sparks, and a Defendant eavesdropping productive or impartial? To the contrary, it gives the appearance they share a special kind of relationship.

Then we have the very attorneys who committed this violation currently responding in legal documents with conjecture. They omit addressing their own disgraceful indiscretions and their hands in this, as they drag the old lady and her attorney behind the bus.

There have been two mediations with this case and a third pushed for by Breslow that did not occur because the suggested mediator, Chief Judge Jones, was conflicted due to her law clerk discussing the case with a defendant, thus those text messages.

I think it’s easy to forget there is a victim here. Every time one of these mediations occurs, it is extraordinarily physically taxing on the nearly 90-year-old victim, with a high likelihood to produce another heart episode given the fragile state of her health. If the court cannot demonstrate its commitment to justice by its own actions, it should release this case to another venue where it can be overseen and heard by people unencumbered to any person or entity. That is exactly what the City of Sparks is afraid of…that it will lose its tether to a system it is embedded with.

Should Judge Breslow and the Second Judicial District Court of Nevada chose to hold this case in its death grip, it will leave us wondering who exactly benefits from it.

In that case, there is simply no justice to be had for Maureen in this county, nor any surrounding county.