A fight among heavyweight developers erupted in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Friday over the fate of 1,340 acres of land in the stalled Park Highlands planned community in North Las Vegas.
Nevada’s attorney general has sued foreclosure specialist Lender Processing Services Inc., claiming it has been involved in widespread fraud involving robosignings and other problems.
The businessman known as “Rudy,” the underdog of movie and Notre Dame football fame, has agreed to pay $382,866 to federal regulators to settle claims that he and others engineered a stock fraud scheme involving one of his Las Vegas companies.
The Platters — known for songs like "The Great Pretender" — are the subject of yet another trademark lawsuit involving performers claiming to have the right to use the "Platters" name.
A company facing the loss of its limousine concession at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is suing the airport and the Clark County Commission.
When it comes to the economy, Las Vegas will likely be happy to forget 2011 — and that was illustrated Thursday with issuance of yet another report documenting the city’s troubles during the recession.
Dreary conditions continued in the Nevada residential real estate market in November, with the state leading the nation in foreclosures for the 59th consecutive month.
The Harmon Tower at CityCenter will continue to sit empty and unused well into 2012 after a judge indicated Wednesday she may decide in March if it can be imploded.
Everything right and everything wrong with the Southern Nevada residential real estate market was illustrated during a bankruptcy auction this week for 1,340 acres in the stalled Park Highlands planned community in North Las Vegas.
Copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas faced more problems Monday after a federal judge granted a defendant’s motion that Righthaven be placed under control of a receiver and that its copyrights be auctioned off, giving it nothing to sue or appeal over.
With the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas so far underperforming with its casino operations, the property on Monday signaled it’s hoping for further improvements with the hiring of longtime casino executive Thomas McCartney as chief operating officer.
A new study confirms the big role investors, including "house flippers," played in Nevada’s home price run-up and its subsequent near collapse. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week reported that their study "revealed some astonishing facts."
A second Las Vegas Strip casino operator has been sued over allegations an executive protection agent wasn’t paid overtime pay he had earned. Attorneys for Richard Derek Olsen, a former Wynn Las Vegas agent, filed suit charging Olsen wasn’t paid for more than 880 overtime hours worked.
California-based 24 Hour Fitness sued 14 former employees in Las Vegas this week in a dispute over claims they didn’t receive overtime pay they deserved.
Neither side is backing down in a dispute over ownership of the "hot dog girl" photo used to promote the sports books of Station Casinos in the Las Vegas area. Station filed suit in October against Florida photographer Fred Holt, also known as Fred Love, over the photo.
Casino operators Caesars Entertainment Corp., MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd. scored high Thursday in a ranking of companies for their support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.
A dispute has erupted among a group of Nevada geeks over plans to dissolve their nonprofit Las Vegas PC Users Group. The board of directors of the group, which dates to 1989, in May initiated proceedings to shut down the club because of problems including lagging participation; difficulties in finding speakers, volunteers and officers; and in arranging meetings.
New data Thursday showed continuation of a familiar pattern for the Las Vegas valley housing market: Sales are strong, but pricing is down from 2010 levels.
A state judge refused Wednesday to dismiss much of a lawsuit charging the developer of the stalled Fontainebleau casino resort in Las Vegas hid cost overruns.
Kirk Kerkorian’s investment company is suing a former friend of the casino billionaire, charging the Las Vegas man perpetrated a “massive” stock fraud.
Clark County’s new coroner’s inquest process for police shootings does not violate the rights of police officers whose actions are examined, a federal judge ruled Monday.
A good-news, bad-news scenario is emerging at the Las Vegas Hard Rock hotel-casino under its new ownership. In the 1,500-room property’s financial report for the first nine months of the year, revenue fell from the same period of 2010 — but it’s losing less money than it did during the first nine months of 2010.
Analysts at accounting firm PwC have boosted their growth projection for Nevada’s casino industry. In the PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) annual gaming forecast distributed this week, the firm projected Nevada gaming win of $10.4 billion in 2010 to reach $10.7 billion this year and then expand to just shy of $13 billion by 2015. The 2015 projection would about equal the level reached in 2007 — the high-water mark for Nevada casinos before the recession.
The U.S. book and music industries, as expected, on Monday asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco for permission to participate in one of the Righthaven copyright lawsuit appeals.
Billionaire Las Vegas casino executive Sheldon Adelson and one of his attorneys were hit with sanctions by a judge Monday after Adelson repeatedly refused to answer questions during a lawsuit deposition.
Attorney says charges were 'fabricated' and connected to a marital problem
Monday, Dec. 5, 2011
A Las Vegas doctor has been arrested on multiple felony counts involving suspicions he obtained controlled substances by fraudulently writing prescriptions for those drugs.
Three more notaries face criminal charges in the Las Vegas-area foreclosure robo-signing scandal that erupted Nov. 16. They are charged with misdemeanor counts of notarization of the signature of a person not in their presence.
Demand for skilled workers is growing in some sectors as the recession's effects on higher education threaten to shrink the field of trained candidates
Monday, Dec. 5, 2011
It’s a mystery why enrollment has taken a plunge this year at the College of Southern Nevada, but CSN administrators suspect the recession’s fingerprints are on it. With the economic slump now in its third year in Nevada, they say, some would-be students may have simply given up.
The U.S. music and book publishing industries may intervene on behalf of Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas in one of its copyright lawsuits, an attorney said Sunday.
Arizona-based Meritage Homes Corp. announced it was winding down operations in Las Vegas and would exit the struggling market in early 2013. "It’s a sad state of affairs there,” executive Brent Anderson said during an interview Friday.
MGM Resorts International is suing four individuals and two companies it claims have been infringing on its trademarks by registering poker website names that include the names of MGM casinos in Las Vegas.
Two Las Vegas-area shopping centers have been sold, brokers and buyers announced this week. Primestor Development Inc. of Los Angeles said it has acquired 4G Plaza for $8.825 million.
Federal regulators on Thursday halted trading in the stock of a little-known Las Vegas company and one of its executives was charged in what the FBI called a criminal securities kickback scheme.
A big player in the Las Vegas residential real estate market has filed a lawsuit claiming it’s being blackmailed by a major title insurance company in a dispute over foreclosures.
Cowboys and cowgirls will have a herd of opportunities to stock up on boots, jeans, hats, accessories and memorabilia during the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
Actress Eva Longoria’s bankrupt Las Vegas restaurant company is suing one of Longoria’s co-investors, demanding he return money paid to buy out his share of the business.