Indicted last month in a felony arson and insurance fraud case, an embattled Nevada construction defects attorney plans to fight the latest charges against her on constitutional grounds, concerning the…
It clearly wasn’t the cleverest of crimes, but it made headlines because it was so brazen: An unknown suspect was caught on security cameras as he rode a motorcycle up…
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month upholding a cap on California’s prison population is one of several court decisions on the legal obligations of states…
David Schubert, a former Las Vegas prosecutor who handled the Paris Hilton cocaine case, was charged Thursday with felony gun and drug possession, as well as conspiracy, the May 20, 2011 1:21 PM CDT
A lawyer from the Colombian attorney general’s office and her husband, who is a self-described homeopathic physician, are jailed in Las Vegas on felony charges after allegedly performing an unlicensed…
No fan of so-called copyright or patent trolls that litigate over purchased intellectual property rights, a law blog has discovered that it is possible, in its moral scheme of things,…
Accused of brazenly stealing $1.5 million in chips from a Las Vegas casino, the son of a local municipal judge, now 29, allegedly complained to an undercover officer that his…
A lawsuit filed by three former employees of the State Bar of Nevada claims the group’s executive director “launched screaming attacks” on the bar’s admissions director that led to her…
The Las Vegas chief deputy district attorney who prosecuted Paris Hilton for cocaine possession has been arrested and accused of buying crack from a man riding in his BMW.
During the 1980s, a young attorney named Mark Roy Anderson reportedly got some $50 million from around 2,000 investors to fund a business of purchasing, fixing up and selling National…
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