Workers at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel scored a victory in their effort to unionize, although it could still be a long time before employees have a contract if managers choose to delay.

This month both California and New York passed path-breaking legislation to increase the minimum wage, up to $15 by 2022 for California and by 2018 for the slightly more ambitious Empire State. Opponents, especially in low-wage industries, decried the negative impact the change will have on their purportedly slim profit margins. Meanwhile, advocates praised the move, citing widening inequality and soaring corporate profits as evidence of needed change.

A Catholic woman fired from her job at a bottled water company led by a Nevada lawmaker has filed a federal lawsuit against the business, saying she was pressured to watch videos on Scientology and was denied pay raises because of her religious beliefs.

Though it is the majority opinion of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that creates precedent, the dissent, if done correctly, can still potentially have influence on lower court decisions in similar cases. Also, what is not said can often lead to even more legal headaches down the road.

A federal appeals court will not reconsider its decision to overturn the decade-old tip-pooling program at Wynn Resorts’ Las Vegas properties.

It has been a while since Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta tried to choke each other into submission. The brothers took private jujitsu lessons in the early 2000s, and at the end of each they were given the chance to try new moves in a dojo in Las Vegas. But you reach a certain age (Frank is now 54, Lorenzo is 47) and turn up in Forbes (which estimates each brother is worth $1.6 billion), and brawling starts to seem like a bad idea.

President Obama has nominated the Chief Judge of the DC Court of Appeals, 63-year-old Merrick Garland, to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court. And almost immediately, Senate Republicans, who control the chamber, said Wednesday they will refuse to hold hearings.

Upon the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Senate Republican leadership preemptively announced that they will not meet with or hold a hearing on any Supreme Court nominee until the next president is inaugurated.