Aside from Delaware's Court of Chancery, state business courts are relatively new, with New York and Illinois starting commercial dockets in 1993 and other states starting their own systems at a fairly steady pace ever since. As of 2019, more states had their own business courts—either a separate court or aa docket within an existing state court—than didn't.

UNLV announced the GGRM law school scholarship for first responders to earn a law degree.

The best business credit cards for new businesses can get you $0 annual fees, as much as 5% back in rewards, expense-tracking tools and other features aimed at helping recently-established businesses.

An unusual clause in the North Dakota Constitution that limits the power of the courts kept the state’s near-total abortion ban from being struck down last month. Most state Supreme Courts require a majority vote to declare a law unconstitutional. But in North Dakota, it takes a supermajority — a vote of at least four justices — for the Supreme Court to strike down a law. That’s why the state’s 2023 abortion law remains on the books even though three of five justices on the high court found it unconstitutionally vague under the North Dakota Constitution.

Early on in President Donald Trump’s administration, top officials eyed 75 daily immigration arrests across each of the 25 field offices run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). However, an analysis of daily arrest data through mid-October shows that many field offices (including the one covering Nevada) are failing to meet this threshold.

Attorneys for the Wilton Rancheria and the local casino workers’ union argued, before 9th Circuit judges Thursday morning, a case involving hundreds of Sky River workers in Elk Grove, who Unite Here Local 49 have been organizing for years.

Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada each want to appoint, not elect, the judges that sit on their business courts. But state constitutions vary as to whether they allow those appointments.

Changes are coming to Medicaid that could impact hundreds of thousands here in the Silver State.

Advocates are raising concerns about a report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showing a 31% increase in Nevada detainees since mid-September, with one activist saying detention facilities here are not equipped to house and care for the expanded population.

United States immigration courts face a growing backlog of over 3.5 million cases. More than half of these are asylum applications. This backlog puts pressure on the U.S. asylum offices to adjudicate claims quickly. Nevertheless, asylum seekers often wait for years to receive a hearing.

The Labor Department is closing the book on the Biden administration’s iteration of the fiduciary rule and dropping its defense of the regulation in court.

From JD Vance to film tax credits, antisemitism to ICE detention, panelists tackled some of the biggest issues of the moment at The Nevada Independent’s sixth annual IndyFest conference. For those who missed the ideas festival held Nov. 14-15 at the Durango Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, The Indy is sharing full videos of the discussions.