In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

A group of local leaders is set to host a Know Your Rights Town Hall on Thursday, April 22, at Clark County Chambers, 500 Grand Central Parkway, providing details on restoration of voting rights, rights if stopped by law enforcement, and immigration rights.

El Tiempo

Displaying digital proof of protection against COVID-19 could become the norm at this year's Las Vegas events, but privacy experts say they are concerned about data collection by two new "vaccine passport" phone apps ”.

El Tiempo

Displaying digital proof of protection against COVID-19 could become the norm at this year's Las Vegas events, but privacy experts say they are concerned about data collection by two new "vaccine passport" phone apps ”.

Nevada Independent

We seem to have found ourselves in a bit of a pickle. As of April 16th, there have been 147 mass shootings in the United States. Since the start of the trial against former cop Derek Chauvin for the recorded murder of George Floyd, a mere three weeks ago, there have been more than 60 people killed by police officers. More than half of them were Black or of Latin American descent. Without researching the details, I can guarantee that a vast majority, if not all of them involved a gun.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Flashing digital proof of COVID-19 protection could become the norm at Las Vegas events this year, but privacy experts say they’re concerned about data collection by two new “vaccine passport” phone apps.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Flashing digital proof of COVID-19 protection could become the norm at Las Vegas events this year, but privacy experts say they’re concerned about data collection by two new “vaccine passport” phone apps.

MoneyGeek

State and local governments maintain roads, run schools and pay police, and they need to fund public functions and state infrastructure. For most Americans, this additional tax burden comes from a combination of state income taxes, state and local sales taxes, and local property taxes.

Nevada Independent

A bill that initially proposed barring much of the collaboration between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement has survived a deadline but in a heavily watered down form, illustrating how politically dicey the issue has been even for Democratic lawmakers in session after session.

Verdict

We all benefit from neutral and general laws, just as those adjectives suggest. The Supreme Court protected such laws in Employment Division v. Smith, its seminal free exercise case. The current Supreme Court, however, is undermining neutral and general laws in the name of a new theory of religious freedom adopted in its shadow docket COVID case, Tandon v. Newsom. This new theory is being sold as a “most favored nation” theory; the problem with making religious entities “most favored nations” in our country is that it requires the recognition that some are less favored than they are, which means we must abandon the common good for their specific agendas. We oppose this theory now, and do not want it to be adopted in cases that the Court hears in full in the future, including this term.

Las Vegas Sun

Undocumented immigrants once unsure of their ability to get the COVID-19 vaccine are now replacing fears of exposure to the government with the same motivations that any resident or citizen has in getting protected from the coronavirus.

NPR

Virginia has one of the lowest union membership rates of any state. In 2020, only 4.4% of Virginia workers were union members, fifth lowest in the nation. But unions have a long history in the commonwealth, flourishing around the turn of the 20th century in industrial Richmond and the coalfields of the Southwest before union density began to fall in the 1950s.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The City of North Las Vegas and UNLV Boyd School of Law are trying to help people with outstanding bench warrants.