In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

GGRAsia

The casino industry could risk losing consumer trust unless it handled carefully the issues of how it gathers player information and then uses it.

El Tiempo

The proposal by Eldorado Resorts Inc. to acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp. for $ 17.3 billion will not be closed until next year, subject to regulatory approvals, but analysts are already evaluating how sports betting operators will fare. the competition

Las Vegas Review Journal

Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s $17.3 billion proposal to acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp. won’t close until sometime next year, subject to regulatory approvals — but analysts are already assessing how two competing sportsbook operators will fare.

New York Times

When the University of Chicago Medical Center announced a partnership to share patient data with Google in 2017, the alliance was promoted as a way to unlock information trapped in electronic health records and improve predictive analysis in medicine.

Hill

Nearly a decade after getting authority from Congress and a divided vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized new rules for financial advice.

Nevada Independent

It’s common to hear about property disputes among neighbors. But what happens when your neighbor is the federal government?

Las Vegas Review Journal

Nevada’s gaming industry can take a sigh of relief after a federal judge ruled Monday that a law prohibiting interstate wagering applies only to sports gambling.

EGR Global

The District Court of New Hampshire has ruled in favour of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission’s (NHLC) argument that the Wire Act only applies to sports betting.

Missourian

Barely two decades since the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the people of the United States again are confronting the possibility that their president, now Donald Trump, could be impeached, meaning charged by the House of Representatives with offenses that, if proved in a Senate trial, would remove him from office.

Bloomberg Law

Religious protections bolstered under a new Trump administration rule create a pathway to deny health care treatment to LGBT individuals, restrict abortion rights, and avoid providing vaccinations, prompting concern that employers in the health care industry are now in an untenable and risky position.

Salon

One legal scholar says that whether to impeach — or not — should not be viewed as a political question

Dover Daily News

Casino mogul Steve Wynn’s former company was fined a record $20 million by Nevada gambling regulators on Tuesday for failing to investigate claims of sexual misconduct made against him before he resigned a year ago.