In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Bloomberg

Wall Street’s self-regulator tried to ban Alpine Securities Corp. from the industry after finding that it jacked up fees on customers by 60,000% and violated a cease-and-desist order 35,000 times. But the Utah-based brokerage firm isn’t going quietly.

The Daily Beast

America First Legal claims Target defrauded investors when it ran a Pride campaign. Courts need to sanction groups that file these money-draining, bogus suits.

Nevada Independent

The federal government recently enabled Venezuelan migrants to get work permits. Long-term undocumented immigrants are still in limbo.

Environment+Energy Leader

There’s good news and bad news. According to the National Economic Research Associates, the United States is awash in natural gas, enabling it to meet future corporate demand — if regulators allow companies to build pipelines. The same study says the country can export natural gas while keeping prices low at home.

Reuters

A challenge to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's powers to protect investors from fraud comes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in another in a series of legal attacks against federal agencies that regulate financial markets.

Rethinking65

Lower courts have decided the SEC’s power to seek penalties through in-house enforcement proceedings violates the U.S. Constitution. Another case pending against FINRA says it has too much power.

Vegas Inc

Long-term donors to the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Tom and Leslie Thomas, pledged a gift to establish a Small Business Initiatives Endowment Fund, named after them, within the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic.

Hill

Major advertisers have been fleeing X, the site formerly known as Twitter, after a series of antisemitic posts from the platform’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Labor made great strides in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.

WealthManagement

In the latest filing in its suit against FINRA in federal court, the Utah-based brokerage firm disputed the regulator’s claims that a ruling against it could have a dire impact on investors.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

With the majority of the young men he believes beat and kicked a Rancho High School student to death already behind bars, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has some decisions to make.

Associated Press

Eight Las Vegas high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 years old were arrested on murder charges in the beating death of a schoolmate that was captured on cellphone video and widely share across social media.