In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
The year is 2022, and you’ve just pulled up a seat at one of thousands of glittering slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip. As the multi-colored patchwork of jackpots dances on-screen, something new pops up: your name, greeting you like an old friend.
With the Nevada caucuses just under two months away, presidential candidates have been making a final push in the Silver State to court one of the most sought-after voter bases – union workers.
Joe Biden, in a swing through Nevada on Saturday, continued to face tough questions and criticism about his defense of the Obama administration’s mass deportations — but that might not stop him from winning Latino votes in the state.
A small group of people sitting for the July 1980 California bar exam received a unique offer: After taking the two-day paper-and-pencil exam, they could agree to spend two more days being tested.
Vice News reported this week that a local captain at a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement facility in Pahrump wrote numerous posts on a white supremacist Internet group. While calling facts reported by Vice disturbing, Michael Kagan, the director of UNLV’s immigration clinic, said the problem is much bigger than one person.
There was a lot of tax talk in 2019 – especially on social media. From Bitcoin to stretch IRAs to tax refunds, Twitter streams were filled with news, links, and best practices focused on tax.
It's a law designed to get guns out of the hands of dangerous people, those who want to harm themselves or others.
Advisors who set up accounts to ensure their clients’ heirs received money on a particular date might have found those plans undermined by their own broker-dealers.
Organized labor’s clout in the Democratic Party is growing. For evidence, look no further than the small California food services union that nearly managed to shut down a presidential debate.
There's been a lot of talk lately about online courts. They can take many forms, but the basic idea is that everyone avoids trekking down to the courthouse and instead attends hearings virtually. The more robust versions are asynchronous: Evidence and arguments are submitted by a deadline and judges render decisions on their own schedules. Many predict that soon AI platforms will handle some small matters with just a little human oversight.
If former Vice President Joe Biden represents the moderate lane of the Democratic Party, then immigration policy has come a long way.
Attorneys for two Las Vegas judges facing possible suspension over complaints about mistreating court administrative personnel said the allegations stemmed from employee grievances, not actions in a courtroom.