In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
W estgate Las Vegas SuperBook oddsmaker Jay Kornegay believes his sportsbook will someday have a presence in California. It just won’t be anytime soon, thanks in part to a recent decision by voters in California against legal sports betting.
Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto triumphed in her closely watched race this past weekend, defeating Big Lie pusher Adam Laxalt and keeping the U.S. Senate in Democratic control for another two years. Cortez Masto, the first and only Latina in the chamber, secured her reelection on Saturday following vote counts in Clark County, a blue stronghold.
Heading into the midterms, the Democrats kept quiet about migration as if there was no problem at the border and let the Republicans dominate the debate by making this a political spectacle, blaming everything on migration. It was a missed opportunity.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion access emerged as a near-constant campaign focus during the battle for Nevada governor.
Corporate political donations now raise a mix of ethical, legal, and business issues.
The national reckoning on race and policing that followed the death of George Floyd -- with a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his windpipe -- spurred a torrent of state laws aimed at fixing the police. More than two years later, that torrent has slowed.
The national reckoning on race and policing that followed the death of George Floyd -- with a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his windpipe -- spurred a torrent of state laws aimed at fixing the police. More than two years later, that torrent has slowed.
This picturesque village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is nearly 2,000 miles from the country's southern border.
As the 25th anniversary of UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law draws closer in August 2023, Dean Leah Chan Grinvald has big plans for expanding the school’s reach.
Even as Republican candidates continue to pummel incumbent Democrats on a faltering economy and sidestep anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they have launched a fresh salvo of attacks over immigration.
After the Supreme Court’s draft opinion rejecting a right to abortion was leaked, public confidence in the Court dropped to its lowest level in the past 50 years. And with additional controversial decisions on guns and climate change, concerns about the court’s legitimacy have increased. To more and more people, the justices operate as political partisans rather than neutral arbiters.
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling overturning the 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s introduction of a federal abortion ban bill both ushered in new legal concerns about the long-sensitive subject of health data privacy.