Benjamin Edwards, associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Adversarial Failure. In this article, Edwards examines the expungement process used by brokers to secure removal of customer complaints from their public records. He questions whether this process is sufficiently adversarial to protect the interests of the investing public and state regulators and offers recommendations for reform.

The US Supreme Court recently upheld a Nevada policy that limits church crowds to 50 worshipers. That’s while casinos are typically allowed to operate at a much higher capacity of 50 percent, given the risk of transmission from the COVID-19 pandemic.

As immigration remains a fixture in news headlines, the lives of many Nevada residents hang in the balance.

President Donald Trump plans to borrow a page from last month’s Supreme Court ruling that overrode his effort to end President Barack Obama’s DACA program as a weapon to help him enact new policies, which were not passed through Congress.

Tax filing deadlines inspire many of us to vow that we’re finally going to organize our papers.

Congressional Democrats are poised to mount a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's directive today to exclude undocumented people living in the United States from the apportionment base following the 2020 census.

If President Donald Trump’s attempt to prevent undocumented immigrants from being counted when congressional lines are drawn after this year’s census is successful, immigrant attorneys and activist say it would be disastrous for Nevada, which has the largest number of undocumented immigrants per capita.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order this week for federal agents to take control of several cities under Democratic leadership, including New York.

“There’s no law,” Las Vegas visitor Genevieve Peters proclaims in the middle of the Wynn Las Vegas casino as she records video of security guards attempting to usher the woman and her friends out of the property for not wearing masks. “It’s illegal and it’s unconstitutional. But yet we are getting walked out by staff.”

Clark County is moving to set up protections for people whose housing security has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic, starting with threatening landlords and others with a misdemeanor if they discriminate against certain renters.

A federal district court in Georgia (2007) rejected on ministerial exception grounds the lawsuit by an African American pastor, the “director of worship arts,” for race discrimination. One of the things his pastor told him was “this is a white church, Shirley Caesar music won’t work here,” and “since you’ve come, the church is experiencing white flight.”

The next time you shop around for financial advice, more investment professionals will be able to assure you that they’re acting in your “best interest.” But what’s really in your best interest is understanding precisely what that means.