In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term. After killing Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion, limiting Miranda Rights protections, and delivering a blow to climate action, the conservative supermajority decided not to add the rights of immigrants to their list of casualties—at least not entirely—and gave a rare win to the Biden administration.
Thousands of miles and circumstances separate a Jewish clergyman based in Maryland and a death row inmate in Texas. But the two men’s lives have become enmeshed through dozens of handwritten letters over the past year. One sticks out to cantor and chaplain Michael Zoosman: a February 2021 response from the Polunsky Unit prison in which Ramiro Gonzales offered to donate a kidney to one of Zoosman’s congregants.
Heat deaths have hit a 10-year high in Las Vegas, capping an alarming trend in our increasingly hot climate. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to federal climate change efforts, limiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
One of the required courses during a student’s first year at UNLV’s Boyd School of Law is “lawyering process,” a class heavy on legal writing.
Friday, July 1, 2022, 19 new laws will go into effect in the State of Nevada. The changes cover a wide range of issues from eggs to education, minimum wage to telehealth, cancer drug regulation to what’s allowed in gasoline.
Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court case which established a federal right to an abortion, was considered settled law for nearly fifty years. The decade's old precedence was overturned last week by a 6-3 decision of the court that found women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion.
The ruling itself was one thing. The concurrent opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, was another.
he ruling itself was one thing. The concurrent opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, was another.
The Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion on Friday, ushering in likely abortion bans across much of the country.
The Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion on Friday, ushering in likely abortion bans across much of the country.
The US Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade could be followed by many states restricting abortions, or possibly banning them. But Nevada will continue to provide abortions to local residents and visitors from nearby states, including residents of Arizona, Idaho, Texas, and Utah, reports said.
When the Palms reopened on April 27, it returned as the first Las Vegas casino resort fully owned and operated by a Native American tribal gaming group.