Two 97-year-old great-grandmothers own bragging rights as the oldest people planning to attend the 2017 Las Vegas High School “Wildcat” Reunion.
Jane Ann Morrison
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt asked a federal judge’s permission to intervene in 157 pending Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits filed in Las Vegas by Kevin Zimmerman. A senior deputy attorney general called the lawsuits “potentially malicious, premature, poorly drafted, and failing to state a claim.”
The latest chapter in the Badlands Golf Course development debate, in which the Las Vegas City Council rejected the developer’s latest plan, offered a window on the council’s new makeup.
The unintended consequence of Las Vegas gambler Bill Walters’ sentence is the financial loss to Opportunity Village, a likely slowdown for its $136 million expansion and renovation plans in Southern Nevada.
If a candidate wins an election, the elected official should finish the term of office, barring a medical or family issue. Moreover, if an elected official announces a run for another seat midterm, that person should be required to resign the current seat.
An insurance company that made extraordinary allegations of racketeering and civil conspiracy against Las Vegas personal injury attorney Dennis Prince and two other local attorneys saw its case crumble when a federal judge tossed it out of court.
The Las Vegas party may be over for disabled plaintiff Kevin Zimmerman and his Las Vegas attorney Whitney Wilcher, who filed 274 lawsuits this year claiming civil rights violations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Three local architectural firms competing to develop a master plan for the Las Vegas Academy of Arts received mixed messages recently.
One of Nevada’s leading law firms not only enabled a criminal conspiracy, it also participated in it, according to District Judge Mark Denton.
In a victory for personal injury attorneys in Las Vegas, two local judges took the unusual step of banning Dr. Derek Duke from testifying as an expert witness in two cases, finding him biased against personal injury plaintiffs.
A Clark County man and his Las Vegas attorney have filed 274 federal lawsuits since January claiming local businesses are not in compliance with the the Americans with Disabilities Act.
I’d like to take credit for writing a killer column on the topic, but the credit for killing one bad bill belongs to Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson.
The State Bar wants the Nevada Supreme Court to uphold two Louisiana court rulings that found Lerner guilty of professional misconduct. Lerner’s attorneys want the justices to block the State Bar of Nevada from recommending discipline against him for his behavior in New Orleans.
Doctors and family should ask terminal patients about their wishes regarding quality of life, advocates Dr. Atul Gawande, author of”Being Mortal.” Such a conversation will mean less suffering and clarify goals for patient care.
Reforms passed in 2015 to block Nevada legislators from playing the gimme, gimme, gimme game are on the chopping block, courtesy of Assembly Democrats and Republicans.
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Oscar De La Hoya selling Henderson mansion
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