In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chad F. Wolf announced Tuesday that the agency will reject all first-time requests for DACA while the agency works to fully reconsider the program.
Ogonna Brown — a partner at the Las Vegas office of Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie — was recently named the fifth member of the Nevada Gaming Commission, filling a previously vacant seat. Veteran commission member John T. Moran Jr. also was named commission chairman by Gov. Steve Sisolak (D), following several months as acting chairman.
The federal court for the District of Maryland recently ordered the Federal Government to accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, however, the order would be appealed. At the moment you have to wait and prepare.
As someone who studies professional fees in large chapter 11 cases, I’ve thought a lot about how quickly those professional fees can escalate. Successful chapter 11 bankruptcies are expensive, though, in almost all cases, the end result—a successful reorganization—is a good result. But can the fees be controlled effectively?
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that it will renew its efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy by directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cease accepting any new applications and curtailing renewals for the program.
Benjamin Edwards, associate professor of law at the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Adversarial Failure. In this article, Edwards examines the expungement process used by brokers to secure removal of customer complaints from their public records. He questions whether this process is sufficiently adversarial to protect the interests of the investing public and state regulators and offers recommendations for reform.
The US Supreme Court recently upheld a Nevada policy that limits church crowds to 50 worshipers. That’s while casinos are typically allowed to operate at a much higher capacity of 50 percent, given the risk of transmission from the COVID-19 pandemic.
As immigration remains a fixture in news headlines, the lives of many Nevada residents hang in the balance.
President Donald Trump plans to borrow a page from last month’s Supreme Court ruling that overrode his effort to end President Barack Obama’s DACA program as a weapon to help him enact new policies, which were not passed through Congress.
Tax filing deadlines inspire many of us to vow that we’re finally going to organize our papers.
Congressional Democrats are poised to mount a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's directive today to exclude undocumented people living in the United States from the apportionment base following the 2020 census.
If President Donald Trump’s attempt to prevent undocumented immigrants from being counted when congressional lines are drawn after this year’s census is successful, immigrant attorneys and activist say it would be disastrous for Nevada, which has the largest number of undocumented immigrants per capita.