Eight sales people terminated from homebuilder Lennar Corp. in 2007 in Las Vegas are suing the company, alleging age discrimination because young, attractive females remained on the payroll.
One of the judges most critical of newspaper copyright infringement lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC said in an order Thursday that Righthaven does not appear to have the right to sue over Review-Journal material.
Four air tour operators say McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas has charged them some $5.827 million in unauthorized fees since 2001 – and they want that money back.
Having settled litigation with Pinnacle Entertainment Inc., Las Vegas-based casino developer Dan Lee said Tuesday he’s waiting for the Texas Legislature to wrap up its session before seeking financing for his new resort in Louisiana.
Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino executive Larry King didn’t have to look far for a new job when the Sahara announced March 11 it would be closing on May 16. Riviera Holdings Corp. announced King, 49, had been hired as chief financial officer, vice president–finance and treasurer.
Las Vegas-area home prices fell again in February -- and remain below 2000 levels -- as measured by the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.
Promoters of the annual Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend event in Las Vegas are suing organizers of a competing show, alleging trademark infringement and other counts.
Superstar Pussycat Dolls creator and Matt Goss manager Robin Antin is purring all the way to the bank. Meow, baby!
Monday, April 25, 2011
It’s easy to find sexy men and women in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Robin Antin’s specialty is finding such men and women who can sing and dance – and building big entertainment businesses around them.
Litigation between Sands and its fired China CEO is heating up, with Sands filing a counterclaim accusing Steven Jacobs of extortion and of being slow to sever ties between Sands’ Macau casinos and an organized crime figure.
A judge on Friday signed an order finding an Oregon nonprofit did not infringe on copyrights when it posted without authorization an entire story from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The order granting summary judgment in favor of the Center For Intercultural Organizing of Portland, Ore., was expected.
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is confident its lawsuits over Las Vegas Review-Journal material remain valid – despite new evidence that defense attorneys say proves the copyright assignments at issue are meaningless.
The Nevada Cancer Institute must now deal with a class-action lawsuit charging scores of workers laid off April 8 were not given two months warning as required by federal law.
Claims by Las Vegas newspaper copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC that it “owns” the copyrights it sues for are under attack in two more of its lawsuits.
A customer injured when a sports book patron dived for a water bottle thrown into the crowd by a cheerleader won $6.6 million in his lawsuit against the Palms in Las Vegas.
Securities lawsuit attorneys appear to be in pile-on mode, hitting the directors of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and International Game Technology with new lawsuits alleging mismanagement and negligence.
Did Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC play a federal judge last year? And is it now payback time for the judge? That’s the question raised in two orders issued last week.
A judge said Monday he can’t yet rule on the validity of a deal requiring contractors to use union labor in a four-year, $125 million project to renovate Clark County’s jail downtown. Judge Jerry Wiese declined during a hearing Monday to approve or reject the Project Labor Agreement.
Defense attorneys in at least two Righthaven LLC copyright infringement lawsuits filed motions to dismiss over the weekend, citing new evidence they say shows Righthaven has perpetrated a fraud on the federal court in Nevada.
Things went from bad to worse on Friday for Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC when a judge rejected Righthaven’s standard copyright infringement lawsuit demand that defendants forfeit their website domain names to Righthaven.
A federal judge in Las Vegas on Friday unsealed the agreement for prosecuting copyright infringement lawsuits between Righthaven LLC and Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media LLC.
Two of the men arrested in today's national Internet poker crackdown are already tied to a massive fraud case being prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission in Las Vegas.
Some Righthaven LLC watchers are wondering if the Las Vegas company is plotting to have the judge handling all of its Colorado copyright lawsuits disqualified from presiding over those cases.
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC on Thursday said a judge in Colorado was wrong to strike its commentary from a recent court filing, and Righthaven refiled the commentary at issue.
Boyd Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas sued a website domain name owner Thursday, charging he's misusing Boyd's Stardust trademarks for Internet gambling sites.
The MGM Grand hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip has sued a pool maintenance contractor, charging it's responsible for a chlorine leak last summer that sent 26 pool patrons to the hospital.
A group representing nonunion contractors is suing Clark County, charging they've been unfairly disqualified from bidding on a $30 million project to renovate the county jail in downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC faces more problems in its most-regretted lawsuit, the one over a Denver Post photo that it dismissed Sunday against autistic North Carolina blogger Brian D. Hill.
As the 2009 Station Casinos Inc. bankruptcy case in Nevada heads towards a conclusion, numerous of its subsidiaries and joint ventures filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization petitions on Tuesday as expected.
With a judge in Colorado already critical of Righthaven LLC, the Las Vegas copyright enforcement company faces more work there in the form of dismissal motions in two more cases.
Facing steep budget cuts, the Clark County School District is suing the local teachers' union in hopes of avoiding a deadlock over certain spending reductions. The district filed suit Friday in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas against the Clark County Education Association.
A second former female employee at the Nine Group in Las Vegas is suing the nightclub and restaurant operator, charging that under the prior management she lost her job after complaining of sexual harassment there.
Rick's Cabaret International Inc. said today it has shut down its Las Vegas topless dancing club in order to eliminate losses as it seeks a buyer for the property.
Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC on Sunday voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against autistic blogger Brian D. Hill, which had evolved into a public relations disaster for Righthaven and its partner the Denver Post.
A Florida man and his company own an "Octavius Tower" trademark and have ordered Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip to stop using the mark. Caesars, owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp., disputes the claims of ownership by Marcel July of Port Charlotte, Fla., and his company Octavius Tower LLC.
As executive director of huge Las Vegas charity Opportunity Village, Ed Guthrie has a voice—and is he ever using it.
Monday, April 11, 2011
With the Nevada economy the way it is, and most everything in the state budget on the chopping block, you’d think Ed Guthrie would be wringing his hands worrying about the future of Opportunity Village.
Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas has expanded into a new line of copyright enforcement: the protection of online sports-betting content. Righthaven is best known for suing websites, bloggers and message board posters over material it obtains from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post.
Nevada Commerce Bank in Las Vegas has failed and its deposits and branches are being taken over by City National Bank, the state Financial Institutions Division said today.
Las Vegas newspaper copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC is accusing one of its defendants of hypocrisy -- for first fighting copyright infringements and then allegedly infringing on Righthaven's material.
A federal judge in Denver on Thursday criticized the litigation tactics of Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC. Senior U.S. District Judge John L. Kane made the comments in a ruling that could signal difficulties down the road for Righthaven.
Eva Longoria's Beso restaurant and Eve nightclub in Las Vegas face new legal challenges in the form of a sexual harassment complaint and allegations about unpaid taxes.
The Federal Trade Commission is suing several Las Vegas companies and two individuals it says have been victimizing consumers by tricking them into paying over and over again for worthless services related to payday loans.
With unemployment in Las Vegas running at 13.6 percent, even college graduates are finding it tough to find jobs. The recession has decimated state general fund revenue, which is projected at $5.8 billion for the coming biennium.