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Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt scored a real attention-grabber in January, signing the state onto a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. On Tuesday morning outside the Sawyer Building, our activist attorney general received more attention....

A University of Virginia administrator filed a $7.85 million libel lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, its parent company and a reporter on Tuesday over a now-debunked story of a gang rape on the U.S. campus....

RENO — A federal judge has granted class-action status for a lawsuit that more than two dozen cooks and kitchen workers want to join accusing northern Nevada’s largest chain of sports taverns of misclassifying them as...

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No one wants to think about the “worst case scenario” in the heady days of a new business venture. But, before your start-up company does its first day of business, there are basic legal issues you should address to avoid complications down the road.

Clark County on Tuesday approved an $85,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by the father of Roderick “RJ” Arrington, a 7-year-old boy beaten to death in 2012 despite a call for help to a county child abuse hotline....

Neighbors are fighting a proposed Blue Bell ice cream distribution center in Henderson, with one filing a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop the project....

The Nevada Association of Counties and Farm Bureau Federation have objected to the federal court decision dismissing their lawsuit against the Interior Department over management of the state’s wild horse and burro po...

RENO — A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by a coalition of rural Nevada counties that wanted to force the government to sell or otherwise dispose of tens of thousands of mustangs in U.S....

A woman who has alleged she was sexually assaulted by entertainer Bill Cosby and her attorney, Gloria Allred, will go before the Nevada Legislature in Carson City on Friday in support of a bill that would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations for rape in Nevada.

The alleged victim will urge the law be changed because under current Nevada law it is too late for Cosby to be criminally prosecuted for what she alleges he did to her, according to a news release from Allred's office.

About 100 activists wanting to meet with Attorney General Adam Laxalt over his decision to join a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s action on immigration blocked the highway in front of the state Capitol on Wednesday....

More than a hundred immigration and progressive activists are protesting outside of Attorney General Adam Laxalt's office demanding he remove Nevada from a lawsuit blocking a halt to deportations of some immigrants. Members of ......

UPDATE: The demonstrators have finished for the time being and Carson Street has been reopened to traffic for the time being, according to the Carson City Sheriff's Office and Nevada Highway Patrol. Another event may be planned this afternoon, organizers said.

More than 100 people peacefully demonstrated Wednesday in front of the Nevada State Capitol Building in Carson City, Nev., protesting immigration issues, and specifically Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt's decision to join a lawsuit with 24 states challenging executive actions by President Barack Obama on immigration.

A bill heard in a Senate committee today would make it much harder to bring a class-action lawsuit for failure to pay constitutionally mandated minimum wages in Nevada....

Attorney General Adam Laxalt responded in writing to U.S. Rep. Dina Titus’ letter criticizing him for signing onto a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration....

If Nevada doesn’t reform rules that currently protect teachers based on seniority rather than performance, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison says the state is just setting itself up for a lawsuit like the one which t...

If Nevada doesn’t reform rules that currently protect teachers based on seniority rather than performance, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison says the state is just setting itself up for a lawsuit like the one which t...

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled support for a Muslim woman who filed a lawsuit after she was denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a head scarf for religious reasons....

Appearing before Congress, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt elaborated on his controversial decision to join a lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s immigration actions, telling lawmakers it’s a matter of defending the rule of law. “This suit is not about immigration,” Laxalt told members of ...

Attorney General Adam Laxalt will appear before the House Judiciary Committee next week to discuss a Nevada-backed lawsuit against President Barack Obama's new immigration deal ......

Bear advocates sued by a Lake Tahoe couple who say they were targeted in an intimidation campaign claim their activities are protected as free speech.

Attorneys for the Bear League and Ann Bryant, the organization's founder, recently filed a motion asking a lawsuit filed by Richard and Adrienne Evans be dismissed on First Amendment grounds.

A federal judge on Monday stalled President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, dealing a victory to a coalition of 26 states — including Nevada — that have filed a lawsuit to ......

A week after Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt broke rank with GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval in joining an immigration lawsuit aimed at the federal government, more of the state’s top Republicans are turning away from the governor....

A Lake Tahoe couple who claims they were harassed and subjected to death threats after reporting a problem-causing bear that was later killed by authorities have sued a nonprofit bear advocacy group they contend was responsible for the harassment.

The state’s new attorney general is wasting taxpayer money needlessly fighting the president’s immigration policy....

Attorney General Adam Laxalt met with Gov. Brian Sandoval to discuss a lawsuit Nevada joined with 25 other states to challenge President Barack Ob...

Attorney General Adam Laxalt made political waves this week when he brought Nevada into a multistate lawsuit challenging an order sparing millions from ......

In a verbal order issued from the bench, District Judge James Todd Russell on Thursday sharply narrowed the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the governor’s Catalyst Fund. That fund, with some $20 million to help bri...

News item: Gov. Brian Sandoval says he will meet with Attorney General Adam Laxalt on the latter’s decision to join an immigration lawsuit.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. — Gov. Brian Sandoval said Wednesday that he doesn’t think he legally can override the state’s challenge to an order that would spare more people from deportation, but he plans to talk with Attorney General Ad...

Gov. Brian Sandoval said he doesn't think he legally can override the state's challenge to an order that would spare more people from deportation, but he plans to ......