In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
Human-rights advocates are applauding a new Biden administration policy to allow children who remain in U.S. custody after being separated from their parents at the border to reunite with them in the U.S. or in their country of origin.
In this video interview with PissedConsumer, professor of law, Francine J. Lipman shares her tips on tax season and talks about the IRS system, how IRS performs audit, gives tips on how to file taxes for free and electronically.
The Biden administration has filed notice to appeal a Manhattan federal judge’s groundbreaking order that limited immigrant detentions by instructing the government to provide court hearings for immigration detainees within 10 days of their arrest.
When Ronald Sandlin and Nathaniel DeGrave appeared in federal court in Las Vegas last month on charges of participating in the Capitol Hill riot, prosecutors could not link them to any extremist group.
“Dreamers” are undocumented young people looking for a path to citizenship.
Whistleblowers do good things. They report illegal conduct to the police in order to protect others from harm. The Illinois Whistleblower Act protects them from retaliation when they report their employer’s or another person’s misconduct to the police.
Many taxpayers file their tax returns as soon as possible to get a quick refund, but this season it may pay to procrastinate.
Four companies that agreed to pay a combined $26 billion to settle claims about their roles in the opioid crisis plan to deduct some of those costs from their taxes and recoup around $1 billion apiece.
As part of a new COVID-19 relief package, Democrats are pushing for Americans to receive a third round of stimulus payments.
Tax season officially opens at the end of the week. The IRS will start accepting and processing 2020 returns on Friday the 12th, which is later than usual.
Even after Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20 as the nation's 46th president, many conspiracy theorists and social media users have continued to promote baseless claims of widespread election fraud to argue that the election was stolen.
When the Nevada Legislature came to order Monday in Carson City, among the new members were a doctor, a lawyer, a UNLV professor, and a former Indiana lawmaker - and that's just one person.
