NV Energy is complaining that a Las Vegas law firm is using "improper and unethical" measures to find evidence about November's fatal traffic accident involving an NV Energy truck.
Las Vegas is ranked No. 4 in a new list of the nation’s “Best Cities For Bargain Shopping.” The Forbes list says Las Vegas is among the “top 10 cities for scoring great deals” because the metro area has 19 Walmarts and 225 factory outlet stores.
Former Henderson city councilwoman Kathleen Vermillion is suing Clark County and Commissioner Steve Sisolak, claiming Sisolak defamed her after ending their alleged romantic relationship.
An attorney wasted little time this week in suing Amazon.com and its Zappos.com subsidiary over a data breach potentially affecting some 24 million Zappos.com customers.
The retail sector of the commercial real estate market remains choppy in the Las Vegas area. In a probable repeat of 2011, some strip malls and power centers are expected to thrive in 2012, while others will likely face financial troubles because of high vacancy rates and tenants struggling to pay their rent.
While empty retail space abounds in Southern Nevada, the drawing power of Target has helped two shopping centers in Henderson survive and even grow during the recession.
Las Vegas has taken a baby step toward improving its standing in the global economy, a new analysis says. In a Brookings Institution study ranking the performance of the world’s 200 largest metro areas, Las Vegas came in at No. 179 for 2010-2011.
A Henderson auto dealership has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit contending two black employees were subjected to discrimination at the business.
The Las Vegas-area home-building industry likely bottomed out in 2011, when new home sales fell to a 30-year low of 3,894, an analyst says. A year-end tally of 3,894 sales locally compared to sales of 5,379 in 2010 and of 38,957 at the peak of the market in 2005.
Internet giant Google Inc. sided against copyright company Righthaven LLC on Friday in one of its appeals. And in what turned out to be an unlucky Friday the 13th for Righthaven, judges rejected two more of its no-warning copyright infringement lawsuits over newspaper content.
Rebecca Blank, acting secretary for the U.S. Commerce Department, sat down with the Las Vegas Sun this week to discuss efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in the global economy. Blank was in town to speak at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
Copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas was hit with a new problem Thursday when the State Bar of Nevada said it’s launching formal proceedings to deal with grievances involving Righthaven CEO Steven Gibson and two former Righthaven attorneys.
Year-end statistics for 2011 show Nevada and Las Vegas maintained their dubious No. 1 spots on the lists of states and cities hit hardest by home foreclosures. During 2011, more than 6 percent — one in 16 — of Nevada housing units received at least one foreclosure filing.
Copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas is now 0-2 when it comes to urgent appeals to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The court on Tuesday rejected Righthaven’s emergency motion of Dec. 20 to block the planned auction of its intellectual property.
Home prices in Nevada and Las Vegas continued to fall during the last two months of 2011, two new reports show. CoreLogic of Santa Ana, Calif., which tracks home prices, said existing home prices in the Las Vegas area in November were down 10.8 percent from November 2010.
A state judge has approved an agreement in which a receiver will be put in charge of the former Las Vegas Hilton, including its gaming operations. The 2,950-room Paradise Road property defaulted on its $252 million mortgage last year and was hit with foreclosure proceedings by lender — and hotel investor — Goldman Sachs, in September.
A bankruptcy judge approved Monday a reorganization plan for the Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana resort in which the attraction will remain open and be sold to an investor. The investor, John Vipulis, has already fronted the attraction some $350,000 to keep it afloat since its October bankruptcy filing.
A new round of name-calling erupted Monday between copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas and one of its creditors. Righthaven, the copyright enforcement partner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has for months been in survival mode as it tries to block creditors from seizing its assets.
Continued weakness in the recession-ravaged Las Vegas-area office market highlights the first commercial real estate statistics issued for the fourth quarter of 2011.
A nonprofit group is complaining the Las Vegas Review-Journal invites readers to share its stories online — and then has Righthaven LLC "ambush" them with copyright infringement lawsuits.
The closed Atrium Suites Hotel in Las Vegas could reopen in 12 to 18 months after its purchase for $4.2 million by Atrium Holdings LLC, an investment group led by The Siegel Group Nevada Inc. “All possibilities are on the table" a Siegel executive said.
Just one year ago, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC was busy collecting settlement money from the unsuspecting recipients of its no-warning lawsuits. On Friday, the tables were turned when a defendant who refused to settle won back some of the money he had paid attorneys to fight — and ultimately defeat — Righthaven in court.
Attorneys trying to recover money from copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas were frustrated yet again Thursday when no one from Righthaven showed up in court for a judgment debtor’s examination.
As the Southern Nevada gaming and tourism economy improves in 2012, financial restructurings of troubled companies and properties are expected to slow down. But such troubles are continuing for some companies, as evidenced by debt defaults involving Loews Lake Las Vegas Hotel in Henderson and the JW Marriott Las Vegas casino resort in Summerlin. Their recently disclosed defaults follow a difficult 2011 for the local resort industry.
The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel-casino has been sued by two Las Vegas nightclubs after three of their executives went to work at the Trop’s new RPM club. The jointly operated Chateau and Gallery nightclubs filed suit over noncompete agreements Dec. 27 in Clark County District Court against the Tropicana and former Chateau/Gallery executives Richard Wilk, Todd Worz and Sean Peters.
The Hooters hotel-casino in Las Vegas will be sold next month under plans disclosed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Unable to meet its debt payments, the 696-room Tropicana Avenue property filed for bankruptcy last year and then agreed with its main creditor that it will be sold to the highest bidder.
A court-appointed receiver asked a federal judge for guidance Tuesday after Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC balked at surrendering its copyrights to her for auction.
Las Vegas power couple Glynda and Jim Rhodes are entering 2012 tied up in divorce proceedings. For reasons that have not been fully disclosed, Glynda Rhodes filed for divorce on Oct. 26 in Clark County Family Court.
Family members of a Las Vegas woman who died after a botched backroom surgical procedure are suing her unlicensed doctors as well as two businesses they claim share responsibility for the tragedy.
Former Nevada banker Douglas E. French has agreed to pay a $35,000 fine to settle a regulatory complaint charging he engaged in unsafe lending practices at the now-failed Silver State Bank, allegedly contributing to millions of dollars in loan losses there.
As the auction for its website domain name continues this week, copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas is struggling with additional problems.
New home sales in the Las Vegas area totaled 365 in November, down from October and from November 2010 as the recession continued locally, statistics issued Friday showed.
With the holiday weekend under way, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC appeared to remain in danger Friday of seeing its intellectual property auctioned off.
A bankruptcy judge has declined to overturn the results of last week’s auction of 1,340 acres of undeveloped land in the stalled Park Highlands planned community in North Las Vegas.
Amonix Inc., which has a North Las Vegas solar array manufacturing plant, on Friday said its CEO was killed in a plane crash in Pennsylvania on Thursday.
UNLV economics professor Alan Schlottmann, known for his research on real estate, economic development and the Nevada economy, has filed a lawsuit against the university alleging age discrimination.
Ahern Rentals Inc., a Nevada-based national construction equipment supplier hit hard by the recession, filed a massive Chapter 11 bankruptcy case Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Reno.
The court-authorized dismantling of Las Vegas copyright company Righthaven LLC appeared to be under way Thursday, with the company losing control of its website to a receiver.
Lender Processing Services Inc., the company targeted by Nevada’s attorney general in a foreclosure robosigning investigation, has been hit with a class-action lawsuit filed by Las Vegas and Henderson homeowners.
Eight-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Ivey and two Las Vegas attorneys were sued Tuesday by Ivey’s ex-wife, who says they conspired to cheat her out of her fair share of his fortune.
Righthaven LLC, the Las Vegas newspaper copyright lawsuit company, filed an emergency appeal Tuesday to block an auction of its copyrights — an auction Righthaven says is aimed at dismantling the company, even though the copyrights are “allegedly suspect.”
Copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas is refusing to turn its copyrights over to a court-appointed receiver so they can be auctioned — causing attorneys Monday to seek an order enforcing the auction plan.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is disputing claims by a foreclosure processor that her office has improperly outsourced a foreclosure document robosigning investigation.