Legal

Vegas lawyer wants Google to ID people he says defame him

Attorney Adam Kutner's lawyer, Bradley Booke, said Thursday the goal is to identify people posting what he calls obscene, vulgar and false information about Kutner, and then sue them for defamation ...

9 July 2015
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Office park owners sue Gordon Silver law firm in dispute over unpaid rent

The law firm Gordon Silver once occupied three floors totaling about 54,000 square feet at this office building at 3690 Howard Hughes Parkway. The firm has moved to a 2,883-square-foot furnished suite at 500 N. Rainbow Blvd.

Owners of the Hughes Center office park, where Gordon Silver occupied three floors totaling about 54,000 square feet, sued the decades-old firm, alleging ...

9 July 2015
By Eli Segall

Nevada to get $1.7M in national JPMorgan Chase settlement

State Attorney General Adam Laxalt says Nevada will get $1.7 million under a nationwide settlement with JPMorgan Chase stemming from debt collection practices. The agreement announced Wednesday involves ...

8 July 2015
Associated Press

Nevada adds $200K to fight California patient busing lawsuit

Nevada officials including Gov. Brian Sandoval have approved more money to fend off a lawsuit that San Francisco filed over alleged psychiatric patient dumping. The Nevada Board of Examiners voted Tuesday to approve $200,000 more to continue ...

7 July 2015
Associated Press

Arum sues Haymon, Premier Boxing Champions over fights

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum shakes hands with boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. during a news conference at Nokia Theater on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, in Los Angeles. Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are scheduled to fight May 2 in Las Vegas.

Boxing promoter Bob Arum filed suit Wednesday against Al Haymon and his financial backers, claiming they are violating federal law by acting as illegal promoters and monopolizing fighters and venues for fights ...

1 July 2015
Tim Dahlberg, AP Boxing Writer

Gamblers’ abuse claims test sovereignty of U.S. tribal casinos

A table game area is reflected on a ceiling mirror in Foxwoods Resort Casino on the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation in Mashantucket, Conn. in this 2006 file photo. Lawsuits making their way through federal courts are testing the principle of sovereign immunity when it comes to abuse claims at tribal casinos. So-called “advantage players” are made to feel unwelcome, regularly being tossed and and blacklisted. But gamblers have limited options to press claims of mistreatment at Native American-owned properties, which generally are shielded from lawsuits in outside courts by laws recognizing tribes’ sovereignty.

A pair of lawsuits in federal courts is testing the principle of tribal immunity in cases involving allegations of abuse and bias in tribal justice systems ...

1 July 2015
Michael Melia, Associated Press

Nevada still hopes to have patient-dumping case dismissed

Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital

As far as San Francisco is concerned, a lawsuit pushing back against Nevada’s one-time practice of busing mentally ill patients to California will be moving forward. But Nevada is saying not so fast. The Supreme Court ...

1 July 2015
By Jackie Valley

Inmate wounded by guard sues Nevada prison officials

Nevada prison inmate who was wounded by shotgun blasts that killed another prisoner has accused the state Department of Corrections chief, supervisors and guards of deliberate indifference and ...

1 July 2015
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Attorney: ‘Proper trust and estate planning is extremely important’

Attorney Dana Dwiggins, a partner at Solomon Dwiggins & Freer, strikes a balance between managing the law firm and handling her own caseload, plus making time for family and devoting time and energy to Safe Nest, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence.

Dana Dwiggins became managing partner at Solomon Dwiggins & Freer at age 32. In addition to practicing law — focusing on probate and trust litigation, small-business litigation, trust and estate administration, guardianships, and trust and wills — she oversees all financial aspects of the firm ...

21 June 2015
By VEGAS INC Staff

Casinos are improving their efforts to fight money laundering, Treasury official says

The casino industry has improved its efforts to keep illegal money off the casino floor, said Stephanie Brooker, director of the enforcement division of the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

The gaming industry’s fight against criminals who want to use casinos to disguise illegal money was front and center Thursday at the Paris resort. There, industry leaders and ...

19 June 2015
By J.D. Morris

Law firm’s program helps entrepreneurs avoid rookie mistakes

Brothers Spencer, left, and Thomas Typinski, center, talk with Fennemore Craig director Mark Hawkins about their business, Peak Physique.

Run by attorneys who specialize in startups, the venture accelerator program offers legal advice and tailors its approach to need. But there’s much more to the program than a little lawyerly hand-holding ...

15 June 2015
Danielle Birkin

Snoop Dogg sues beer-maker Pabst over sale profits

In this March 14, 2015 file photo, Snoop Dogg speaks at the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, Calif.

Snoop Dogg signed a three-year agreement in 2011 to endorse Colt 45's fruit-flavored beer called Blast by Colt 45. The lawsuit states his contract called for him to receive ...

8 June 2015
By Anthony McCartney, Associated Press

B.B. King estate fight looms for family group, longtime aide

In this June 26, 2010, photo, B.B. King performs during the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. King died Thursday, May 14, 2015, peacefully in his sleep at his Las Vegas home at age 89, his lawyer said.

A battle over B.B. King's estate is moving from the headlines to the courthouse in Las Vegas. Lawyers for the blues legend's designated executor have filed documents to ...

8 June 2015
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

13 more attorneys leaving Gordon Silver’s Nevada offices

Law firm Dickinson Wright has hired 13 attorneys from Gordon Silver, a Las Vegas firm that's been hit with many resignation in recent months. Dickinson Wright's Las Vegas offices, 8363 W. Sunset Road, are pictured above on Friday, June 5, 2015.

Seven attorneys in Las Vegas and six in Reno are joining rival Dickinson Wright, nearly doubling that firm’s lawyer headcount in Nevada. The departures are wiping out Gordon Silver’s small presence in Reno and depleting its already-shrunken ranks in Las Vegas ...

7 June 2015
By Eli Segall

Battle involving college, closed casino is part of Caesars bankruptcy case

This photo taken Friday, April 24, 2015, shows the former Showboat and Trump Taj Mahal casinos in Atlantic City, N.J.

Stockton University bought the Showboat in December from Caesars for $18 million. But the Trump Taj Mahal is enforcing a 1988 legal covenant prohibiting ...

26 May 2015
Associated Press
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