In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Bloomberg

Meta Platforms Inc. and its insurers, including units of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and Chubb Ltd., are digging in their heels in a fight over where to litigate a high-stakes coverage dispute sparked by suits claiming the tech giant got kids hooked on social media.

Las Vegas Review Journal

A bill that would move the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day to the same date as Columbus Day was presented at the Nevada Legislature on Tuesday, adding to a slate of bills related to the state’s Native American communities.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Clark County Commissioner William McCurdy II is set to host the "Know Your Rights: Immigration Town Hall and Resource Fair" on Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Walnut Community Center. The event will feature local organizations, including the ACLU Nevada, the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, the Consulate of Mexico in Las Vegas, the Consulate of El Salvador, the UNLV Immigration Clinic, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

WealthManagement.com

A broker fighting with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority over being barred is using Supreme Court decisions from the past year in his motion to overturn his case. It’s the latest case questioning FINRA's constitutionality, with attorneys representing the client thinking this case (or one like it) could go before the Court in several years’ time.

Power At Work

In this special blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by music and labor experts to reveal the results of Power At Work’s #LaborGrammys2025. This awards ceremony features Elise Bryant, the founder-director of the DC Labor Chorus and co-host of the Labor Heritage Power Hour podcast; Chris Garlock, the Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and founder-coordinator of the Labor Radio Podcast Network; and Ruben Garcia, Professor of Law and Director of the Workplace Law Program at the University of Nevada.

Law360

Way back in 2000, I wrote a piece called "Dressed for Excess: How Hollywood Affects the Professional Behavior of Lawyers," published in the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy.

Gambling News

Steve Wynn, who once ran big casinos, wants the US Supreme Court to take another look at the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan ruling. This decision has protected press freedom in the US for a long time. Wynn made this request after Nevada’s highest court threw out his lawsuit against the Associated Press (AP) and a reporter named Regina Garcia Cano. He claimed the media and journalist had damaged his reputation.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

The Laken Riley Act expands detention for undocumented immigrants, including those accused – but not convicted – of low-level crimes like shoplifting.

Nevada Independent

Attorneys for disgraced casino mogul Steve Wynn, whose 2018 defamation case against The Associated Press (AP) was rejected last year by the Nevada Supreme Court, have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 60-year-old landmark case that established the actual malice rule in libel law.

Nevada Independent

Over the last eight years, Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have remade the federal judiciary. The U.S. Senate approved 234 of Trump’s judicial picks in his first term, and 235 Biden nominees. Each is responsible for the appointments of just over a quarter of the entire federal judiciary.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Charles Kellar was a middle-aged New York attorney with a family, an established law practice and a portfolio of investment properties. But when Thurgood Marshall, then the head of the NAACP’s legal division, asked him to go to Nevada, he went, according to Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV.

Las Vegas Review Journal

In a move anticipated by conservationists, the new head of the nation’s Interior Department has called for the review of national monuments and mining protections issued under past presidential administrations.