Legal

Nevada proposal seeks to strike balance for food vendors, public health

Street vendor Luis Sanchez takes down a shade umbrella as winds pick up in a residential neighborhood in North Las Vegas Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Senate Bill 92, signed by Governor Lombardo last week, legitimizes street vendors across the state, providing them with the necessary permits to operate and grow their small businesses.

Nevada legislators are pushing forward with an initiative to refine the regulatory landscape for the state’s food vendors, aiming to strike a balance between public health safeguards and entrepreneurial opportunity ...

27 March 2025

By Grace Da Rocha

Nevada’s cannabis industry is positioned to grow should federal policy shift

Robin Goldstein, who leads the Cannabis Economics Group at the University of California, Davis, and UNLV Cannabis Policy Institute Director Riana Durrett open the discussion on where cannabis will be most successful should interstate trade for it be approved throughout the United States. Nevada ranked fifth in the report out of the 25 states listed.

In the United States’ burgeoning marijuana industry, state lines are more like walls as the drug’s Schedule I narcotic status alongside heroin and LSD makes interstate commerce illegal. But one day, maybe over ...

26 March 2025

By Kyle Chouinard

Jury hands $5.2B verdict against Las Vegas company in bottled water liver damage lawsuit

A jury in Nevada has delivered a $5.2 billion award in the latest large-sum lawsuit against a former Las Vegas-based bottled water company that was found responsible for causing liver damage in customers before ...

24 October 2024

Associated Press

Pac-12 files a federal lawsuit against Mountain West over $43 million in 'poaching' penalties

The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable “poaching penalty” that would cost the rebuilding conference more than $40 million for adding ...

24 September 2024

By Ralph D. Russo, Associated Press

U.S. judge reopens $6.5 million lawsuit blaming Reno air traffic controllers for fatal crash in 2016

A judge in Nevada has reopened a federal lawsuit accusing air traffic controllers of causing the 2016 fatal crash of a small airplane that veered into turbulence in the wake of a jetliner before it ...

15 August 2024

By Scott Sonner, Associated Press

Former Aces player alleges discrimination in lawsuit against team, WNBA

Las Vegas Aces forward Dearica Hamby (5) pulls down a rebound during Game Two of the 2022 WNBA Playoffs finals against the Connecticut Sun at the Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.

Former Las Vegas Aces forward Dearica Hamby has filed a lawsuit against the Aces and the WNBA in Nevada federal court alleging discrimination based on her pregnancy. Hamby's lawyers claim she was discriminated against by ...

12 August 2024

By Jack Williams

Vegas Inc presents 2024 Top Lawyers

Knowing that there are so many lawyers to choose from in Southern Nevada, we have created this list as a starting point for anyone seeking an advocate for their specific needs.

13 June 2024

By VEGAS INC Staff

Nevada attorney general joins lawsuit challenging supermarket merger

Aaron Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, answers a question during an interview at the State Attorneys General Association meetings, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in Boston.

Nevada’s Aaron Ford is joining several other state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission in filing a lawsuit challenging the proposed merger of Kroger and Alebertsons. The merger of the ...

26 February 2024

By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Nevada-based ghost gun manufacturer agrees to stop sales to Maryland residents

"Ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco, Nov. 27, 2019.

A leading manufacturer of ghost guns has agreed to stop selling its untraceable, unassembled firearms to Maryland residents under a settlement agreement announced Wednesday by the city of Baltimore. City leaders ...

21 February 2024

By Lea Skene, Associated Press

Nevada AG announces legal action against social media companies

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced today he is taking legal action against three social media giants because their algorithms “have been designed deliberately to addict young minds.” The litigation was filed against ...

30 January 2024

By Casey Harrison

Family of British tourist among 5 killed in 2018 Grand Canyon helicopter crash wins $100M settlement

A survivor, lower right, walks away from the scene of a deadly tour helicopter crash along the jagged rocks of the Grand Canyon, Feb. 10, 2018, in Arizona. On Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, a Nevada judge approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed — including his newlywed wife— when the helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018.

A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed — including his newlywed wife — when a ...

9 January 2024