Steve Wynn, who once ran big casinos, wants the US Supreme Court to take another look at the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling. This decision has protected press freedom in the US for a long time. Wynn made this request after Nevada’s highest court threw out his lawsuit against the Associated Press (AP) and a reporter named Regina Garcia Cano. He claimed the media and journalist had damaged his reputation.

The Laken Riley Act expands detention for undocumented immigrants, including those accused – but not convicted – of low-level crimes like shoplifting.

Attorneys for disgraced casino mogul Steve Wynn, whose 2018 defamation case against The Associated Press (AP) was rejected last year by the Nevada Supreme Court, have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 60-year-old landmark case that established the actual malice rule in libel law.

Over the last eight years, Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have remade the federal judiciary. The U.S. Senate approved 234 of Trump’s judicial picks in his first term, and 235 Biden nominees. Each is responsible for the appointments of just over a quarter of the entire federal judiciary.

Charles Kellar was a middle-aged New York attorney with a family, an established law practice and a portfolio of investment properties. But when Thurgood Marshall, then the head of the NAACP’s legal division, asked him to go to Nevada, he went, according to Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV.

In a move anticipated by conservationists, the new head of the nation’s Interior Department has called for the review of national monuments and mining protections issued under past presidential administrations.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law has received $311,000 in pledged contributions from alumni to establish four endowment funds.

Is it fair for car insurance companies to consider gender or age when setting premiums?

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is conducting more raids and arrests nationwide, UNLV is warning the community about scammers posing as ice agents. The UNLV immigration clinic says the scam involves someone claiming to be an ice agent asking for money, bank accounts, or other personal information.

The UNLV Immigration Clinic is warning of reports of people impersonating immigration officers and trying to obtain bank account or other personal information.

Amid rumors of immigration raids and arrests, human rights advocates say some in Tucson’s immigrant community are feeling “terrorized” and scared to go outside, to some extent based on a flurry of unconfirmed reports from a panicked public.

Immigration enforcement is common in Southern Nevada but the recent activities by federal agents nationwide are heightening awareness. Organizations that help migrant clients in Las Vegas continue to monitor activities in states surrounding Nevada including California and Arizona.