In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Nevada Current

ACLU vows to sue to block ‘disorder-related’ ordinance

Nevada Independent

Police say the rule will prevent stampedes and unruly behavior, but critics call it overly harsh.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Clark County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve an ordinance prohibiting individuals from stopping, standing or engaging in an activity that causes another person to stop on Strip pedestrian bridges or near escalators, elevators or stairways connected to the bridges.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Much of Las Vegas’ economy relies on businesses that sell alcohol. But Nevada doesn't have dram shop laws.

Nevada Independent

The UNLV Immigration Clinic is helping victims start a multiyear process that provides a path to legal status if they help with a police investigation.

Wall Street Journal

Justices will likely have to rule on whether 14th Amendment’s banning insurrectionists from office applies to former president

Bloomberg

Wall Street’s self-regulator tried to ban Alpine Securities Corp. from the industry after finding that it jacked up fees on customers by 60,000% and violated a cease-and-desist order 35,000 times. But the Utah-based brokerage firm isn’t going quietly.

The Daily Beast

America First Legal claims Target defrauded investors when it ran a Pride campaign. Courts need to sanction groups that file these money-draining, bogus suits.

Nevada Independent

The federal government recently enabled Venezuelan migrants to get work permits. Long-term undocumented immigrants are still in limbo.

Environment+Energy Leader

There’s good news and bad news. According to the National Economic Research Associates, the United States is awash in natural gas, enabling it to meet future corporate demand — if regulators allow companies to build pipelines. The same study says the country can export natural gas while keeping prices low at home.

Reuters

A challenge to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's powers to protect investors from fraud comes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in another in a series of legal attacks against federal agencies that regulate financial markets.

Rethinking65

Lower courts have decided the SEC’s power to seek penalties through in-house enforcement proceedings violates the U.S. Constitution. Another case pending against FINRA says it has too much power.