In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law
Changing the requirements for a law license and supporting financial help for public-interest lawyering are among the ways that state supreme courts can help address “staggering” unmet legal needs, according to a report by a group of state chief justices and court administrators released Wednesday.

Shane Tamura, the gunman who drove from Las Vegas to Manhattan and opened fire in a New York City office building Monday and killed four people, was issued a concealed carry permit in Nevada, despite a documented history of mental health incidents.
Lawmakers in Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have recently approved changes aimed at helping their states dip into the lucrative side of corporate litigation that Delaware, with a specialized court and business-friendly laws, has dominated as the world’s incorporation capital.

Broadacres Marketplace announced Monday that the North Las Vegas swap meet will reopen weeks after it closed its doors citing fear about possible sweeps by immigration authorities. On its official Instagram account, the market said it was resuming operations Friday.

Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies continue across the country, including in Southern Nevada, where on Friday night, dozens of demonstrators gathered outside of the Henderson Detention Center to call on local officials to keep ICE authorities out of local communities.

Lawyers and financial advisers working on a Georgia-Pacific unit’s bankruptcy have billed almost $490 million over nearly eight years, but bankruptcy professionals say that’s not unusually high for a case that’s trying to settle with tens of thousands of people holding asbestos claims.
A recent rule reversal may have nullified a dispute between municipal market rulemakers and an outspoken trade organization, but the question raised amid the scuffle is whether the sector's regulators are constitutional at all.

In a post on X, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said people are now responsible for providing their own interpreter. However, attorneys explained, this isn’t necessarily a new rule, it’s a return to pre-pandemic procedures that are now being strictly enforced. While the change wasn’t sudden, attorneys said some applicants are still being caught off guard.

Newborn twins sleep peacefully on a recent weekday as their mother initiates paperwork that could change the course of their lives. Soon, the baby boys will have passports. If their Haitian mother faces deportation, they will be ready to leave their birth country – the United States.

The thought of immigration agents showing up at school is sparking fear across Nevada after a bill that would’ve banned federal agents from entering campuses without a warrant was vetoed this year.

So far, experts widely agree that a lack of manpower has held back President Donald Trump’s planned mass deportation campaign. But a spike in funding for immigration enforcement and changes to the court system under the recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill” could make those plans a reality in Nevada — a state with one of the highest shares of undocumented people.

The four veteran immigration agents who recently took the stand in federal court had at least two things in common. All were career law enforcement officials. And none could remember ever being asked to make arrests like the ones they carried out earlier this year.