In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Recent attacks on "cashless bail" should not discourage our state from living up to its hard-won reforms.

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President Donald Trump has suffered three major legal setbacks in recent days that experts say could put his plans for mass deportation at risk – at least until a higher court steps in.

Why did the federal government designate Nevada as a "sanctuary state"? It's been one month since the federal government placed the state on a list of sanctuary jurisdictions, but we're no closer to learning the answer than when the list was first published.

President Donald Trump bills his deployment of the National Guard as an attack on rampant crime in lawless Democrat-run cities. But the White House’s decision to push the legal limits of the president’s power also has a lot to do with immigration.

Retired ATF agent Tom Chittum, who also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joined discussions regarding the ongoing investigation into a recent shooting.

President Trump signed a proclamation last week marking the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Social Security, the landmark social safety net program passed during the height of the Great Depression to provide basic financial relief to the country’s seniors.

The number of Nevadans casting a ballot by mail has skyrocketed in recent years, but that could change if President Donald Trump gets his wish to ban the practice.

The number of people detained by immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nevada continues to grow, with now 425 detainees being held at two facilities in southern Nevada, the Henderson Detention Center and the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump.

On Friday morning, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced in a press release that it had arrested eight “child sex predators” as part of a multiagency undercover operation over the last two weeks. But the arrest of 38-year-old Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior official for Israel's National Cyber Directorate, quickly overshadowed the news, especially after news outlets reported that he had returned to Israel last weekend.
For immigrants in the U.S. attempting to avoid deportation but still trying to play by the rules as best they can, the masked federal officers roaming the streets aren’t their only worry. It turns out the records they provided the government, such as tax and medical information, could be their undoing now that the Trump administration is using that data to locate them and their families.

With a new school year underway, Clark County School District teachers are on the verge of obtaining a new contract that would usher in a host of changes for educators in the nation’s fifth-largest school district. The Clark County School Board is set to vote Tuesday on whether to approve the proposed contract in a special meeting.