The Nevada Resort Association is pressing state lawmakers to pass legislation to protect casinos from unfounded coronavirus-related lawsuits it says could shut them back down. In a letter to Gov. Steve Sisolak this month, the association said it is seeking “targeted and limited safe harbor from ...
31 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
Like many other Nevada bar owners, Roger Sachs is frustrated. After being hit with state-mandated business restrictions to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Sachs, who owns three Steiner’s pub locations in Las Vegas, is burning through savings and ...
28 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
Unions representing 65,000 Las Vegas-area casino workers have dropped two MGM Resorts International properties from a lawsuit accusing companies of skimping on protective measures and putting employees at risk of illness and death during the coronavirus pandemic. Culinary Union ...
21 July 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
The Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday asked a Clark County district judge to uphold a recent arbitration ruling that the Las Vegas Review-Journal owed the Sun millions of dollars in back payments under a ...
22 October 2019
By Bryan Horwath
In the complaint, the Sun contends that the R-J’s owners violated a longstanding Joint Operating Agreement, virtually eliminating profit sharing and omitting the ...
24 September 2019
By Bryan Horwath
Nevada's Attorney General says he won't accept a tentative deal that OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has reached with about half the states and thousands of local governments over the deadly opioid epidemic. Attorney General Aaron Ford said in a ...
11 September 2019
Associated Press
A Las Vegas restaurant owner who says he was stabbed last year by a DoorDash driver is suing the delivery service, claiming it was negligent in hiring a felon with a ...
6 September 2019
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
The owner of the SLS hotel brand is suing the owner of the SLS Las Vegas casino-resort for months of unpaid licensing fees. California-based SBE Hotel Licensing, LLC, which owns ...
25 June 2019
Associated Press
Nevada's attorney general expanded the state's lawsuit against the maker of the opioid OxyContin on Monday to include the company's former president, his ...
17 June 2019
By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press
The family of a drug-dependent Texas woman who died from an apparent seizure while imprisoned in a rural Nevada county jail for unpaid parking tickets has won a $2 million settlement in ...
28 May 2019
By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
Nearly two dozen states and municipalities sued the federal government Tuesday to stop a new rule that lets health care clinicians decline to provide abortions and other services that conflict ...
21 May 2019
By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
Casino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators Thursday it might pay up to $800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas ...
16 May 2019
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen has long positioned herself as a friend to marijuana businesses, pushing legislation such the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act in the past as a member of the House of Representatives. It’s a trend the Nevada Democrat is continuing in ...
23 April 2019
By John Sadler
A Connecticut man who survived the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival says in a lawsuit he was told to "suck it up" and "get over it" after informing his employers he was ...
3 April 2019
Associated Press
Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was challenged Friday about his "veracity" and truthfulness after saying that his political career was cut short by an eye injury he blames on ...
29 March 2019
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
