Legal

Marketing agency sues Las Vegas Mob Experience

Brain Trust Marketing & Communications filed suit Tuesday against Murder Inc. — the Mob Experience's parent company, which filed for bankruptcy Monday — and against other defendants.

Search under way for new Henderson city attorney

The process of finding a new city attorney is under way in Henderson, and officials hope to fill the position within 30 days.

Nevada woman fighting federal ban on medicinal pot users owning guns

Medical marijuana is shown in a home in this 2010 file photo.

A Nevada woman sued the federal government Tuesday in hopes of overturning its ban on medical marijuana users buying and possessing firearms.

French passengers sue over Death Valley bus accident

French passengers of a Las Vegas tour bus that went bouncing out of control and left the road last year in Death Valley National Park, injuring some of the tourists and tour staff, sued the bus and tour operators on Monday, charging negligence.

Mob Experience at Tropicana files for bankruptcy

Visitors are seen at the Mob Experience at the Tropicana on Tuesday, March 1, 2011.

Capone. Giancana. Lansky. Spilotro. These and other big names in the mobster world were back in court in Las Vegas on Monday — but not in a criminal sense.

Las Vegas court asked to decide ownership of casino ad photo

Attorneys for a Florida photographer have ordered Station Casinos LLC of Las Vegas to stop using his copyrighted "hot dog girl" photo in sports book advertising.

Righthaven facing new lawsuit fee demand

Even as Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC can’t come up with $34,045 to pay one prevailing defendant’s legal fees, it was hit with another demand Friday for $33,148 in fees from a second defendant.

Court rules against Las Vegas golf developer

CARSON CITY – The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected the petition of Las Vegas golf course developer Billy Walters, who maintains he isn't liable for millions of dollars in a bank loan guaranty in his sale of the Stallion Mountain Golf Course.

Tropicana sued again over Mob Experience work

A fourth contractor is suing the Tropicana resort in Las Vegas, claiming it hasn’t been paid for work on the Las Vegas Mob Experience tourist attraction there.

Las Vegas attorney participates in diet drink settlement

Las Vegas attorney Dennis Kennedy of the law firm Bailey Kennedy LLP today announced settlement of a national class-action lawsuit in Massachusetts filed on behalf of purchasers of diet drinks produced by SLIMQUICK, NV and Liquid Hoodia Extreme.

Las Vegas Sands overtime lawsuit expands with race claim

An overtime lawsuit filed by elite executive protection agents against casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. is getting nastier, with new charges of racial discrimination added to the suit on Tuesday.

Righthaven appeals for right to file copyright suits over Denver Post material

Copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas on Tuesday asked an appeals court to revive its right to sue over Denver Post content.

Tourist publication's owner sues former CEO over alleged misappropriations

The owner of Las Vegas tourist publication What’s On, The Las Vegas Guide sued its former CEO on Friday charging mismanagement and misappropriation of company funds.

Nevada securities regulators move against Las Vegas company

A post on a Las Vegas-area real estate agent’s website promoted an investment opportunity that seemed too good to be true.

Drug firms told to pay $162 million in hepatitis C case

Anne Arnold is hugged by her attorney Robert Eglet after a jury on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, ordered three pharmaceutical companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages to plaintiffs in a lawsuit that accused them of negligently distributing large vials of an anesthetic to Las Vegas clinics at the center of a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak.

A jury on Monday ordered pharmaceutical companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit that accused them of negligently distributing large vials of an anesthetic to Las Vegas clinics at the center of a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak.